JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoWhy the fuck do cars still have analog speedometers? Surely digital ones would be more accurate and much easier to read without looking away from the road for too long.message-squaremessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down148
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareWhy the fuck do cars still have analog speedometers? Surely digital ones would be more accurate and much easier to read without looking away from the road for too long.JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThere are a whole bunch of problems with this: most of the sensors are digital the guages are getting their signals from the ECU computer, which is a digital signal the guages in your car are not $10000 scientific equipment, they’re not that precise. the design of these analog guages means that most precision would be lost just due to human vision. There are good arguments for analog guages in cars, but precision isn’t one.
There are a whole bunch of problems with this:
There are good arguments for analog guages in cars, but precision isn’t one.
Informative! Thank you!