Can We Please Go Back To Car Dashboards That Are Simpler And Easier To Read
A decade ago, most vehicles had a dash cluster that likely had a speedometer and RPM gauge. Maybe if you were a teeny bit fancy, the speed of the vehicle was displayed digitally. There was the gas gauge, the odometer, and that’s about it. Now, since the advent of the full-screen gauge cluster, analog gauges have given way to increasingly crowded slabs of information wrapped in overdesigned insanity. In a rush to brand themselves, some automakers have taken the one area in the car that should be reserved for only the most relevant information needed to pilot a vehicle safely and, in some cases, made it into a designer’s playground....