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This one sparks joy.

Touch screens have no business in dashboards. I don't care how sleek it looks to replace all the physical buttons. You have to look at a touch screen to use it. That alone makes them entirely unfit for the purpose. Physical buttons that can be identified by touch and provide tactile feedback are the only interfaces that make any fucking sense at all.

This fees like something so obvious that I cannot understand how we got here.

I love the potential of a digital dash.
I hate the wasted potential of actual digital dashes.

Let me fuckin customize it.
Let me put whatever gauges I want wherever I want. I know that the data is available over the CAN bus, let me fuckin see it.
Dynamically change the layout if something important happens I need to keep an eye on, but wouldn't normally need to worry about

I am partial to the windshield projection style. It is truly fantastic for keeping your eyes on the road while seeing your speed

I get having a digital cluster, because you can display way more information than using analog gauges.

Put it in front of the driver.

108 in a 30. Someone speeding that much has no time for a ticket.

I guess I'm in the minority: I prefer to see my speed as a number instead of a dial.

Yes, it does need to be in front of the driver.

I don't understand how anyone can buy a Tesla. The lack of a dashboard + the only interface being a tablet alone are a deal breaker for me.

You're being sold a feature that is really just massive cost cuttings playing impostor as a luxury feature at a premium with 100x worse usability.

watching 80s and 90s anime has given me a soul-deep admiration for mechanical dials of any kind. I like high-tech shit, but it's gotta have low-tech dials, or I'm out.

I hate that cars are just smart phones on wheels now. Do any auto makers still make cars with the old style and not all these screens and crap?

No idea what that bottom driver is doing, but it indeed does not spark joy

If dial gauges weren't what you chuckleheads grew up with (I'm 38 so I understand the nostalgia) you'd realize they aren't really all that well designed. There's no reason they go as high as they do, especially when they were "capped" at 85, and they display a terrible amount of information for the amount of space they take up.

I dislike many digital dashboards, not because they don't interface well or they don't look good, but because I can't customize them to my own liking. I want my average speed, instantaneous speed, average miles per gallon, instantaneous miles per gallon, range, engine temperature, music track, outside temperature, inside temperature, tire pressure, time, vehicle orientation, all at once. They're normally all available, but hidden in different menus and screens. Put it all out there, I'll learn where to look for the info I want. And let people who desire less info have the ability to set up their dashboard for that as well.

In my opinion, the worst part about new cars is that they are essentially tracking devices and some of them can be remotely controlled.

Any suggestions on how to get a car that doesn't track you and was built post-2010?

Honestly I'd kill for a digital dashboard that easy to read. Most are way worse.

Hard disagree. It is SO much faster for me to read a digital number readout than a analogue one.

This isn't touch screen controls (which are terrible). It's a readout.

It does spark more though

No, the top one sparks gasoline. And the bottom one sparks ... I don't know how electric cars work.

Speak for yourself. I'd love an easy to read screen.

My car doesn't have any of that fancy crap, but the fuel gage is an lcd and I hate it so much. Like it should be fine, except it just doesn't work at certain temperatures and I live in an area where that means half the year.