The first time I heard that many car manufacturers are getting rid of traditional buttons and odometers in favour of touchscreens, I already thought that it is dangerous.
For real, instrument cluster I’m okay having digital. It’s not something I need to touch, usually there’s steering wheel buttons to interact with it.
Having your whole radio/climate/etc all on one screen with menus and shit is stupid. You can’t just reach over and change a setting without looking. I miss when everything was “analog”. My first car was a 91 mazda rx7, and I knew exactly where every control was, didn’t have to look at anything to operate it.
Separate analog odometers are better, because it’s a single point of failure otherwise. If one breaks, I can still read all other instruments (fuel, engine temp, speed and/or rpm, whichever failed)
The first time I heard that many car manufacturers are getting rid of traditional buttons and odometers in favour of touchscreens, I already thought that it is dangerous.
As always, corporations don’t give af.
I don’t see an issue to have digital odometer because you don’t interact with it
For real, instrument cluster I’m okay having digital. It’s not something I need to touch, usually there’s steering wheel buttons to interact with it.
Having your whole radio/climate/etc all on one screen with menus and shit is stupid. You can’t just reach over and change a setting without looking. I miss when everything was “analog”. My first car was a 91 mazda rx7, and I knew exactly where every control was, didn’t have to look at anything to operate it.
Digital is fine for things that don’t need to be touched. Arguably, it’s better.
Separate analog odometers are better, because it’s a single point of failure otherwise. If one breaks, I can still read all other instruments (fuel, engine temp, speed and/or rpm, whichever failed)
That’s actually a good point. A lot of cars have both, now.