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"Take care dashboards for example. They use vast amount of real estate to display information that is useless 99% of the time. How often do you need to know the
by wyc 12y ago
"Take care dashboards for example. They use vast amount of real estate to display information that is useless 99% of the time. How often do you need to know the RPM on an automatic car? Can’t you just take that stupid dial out and put something useful instead?."
Assuming the author meant car, this would be very dangerous (i.e. irreversible engine damage):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline
- paulcothenet 12y agoTypo corrected. I'm not saying you should let the users go in the red without knowing. But does it have to be a big dial that takes a 1/3 of the dashboard?
- jschwartzi 12y agoWhat engine-critical information would you replace the extra real-estate with?
- jackmoore 12y agoNothing is always an option. Including anything that is unhelpful dilutes focus on the things that are.
- jodrellblank 12y agoWe're talking about an automatic car - make the ECU take over so you can't redline it.