I have a digital dash in my '83 Tbird and there are a few things that
irk me about it:
It washes out in direct sunlight. Despite the fact that Ford uses a
light sensor that automatically brightens the display in brighter
ambient conditions, it WILL wash out.
It's slow to respond. (Probably less of a common with modern hardware.)
And because it doesn't use a bar or any kind of sweeping graphic, you
can't instantly tell how fast you're really accelerating (whereas with
an analog gauge, you can kind of gauge the speed of the speedometer
needle and make an estimate of your acceleration.)
All of that in combination with the fact that you have to turn the car
on to see how much fuel you have, I'm not really a big fan of the
digital instrumentation. It is kind of cool, I'll give it that, and if
I was going to customize a car for show or something like that, I'd
definitely make an effort to install one, but analog needles seem much
more efficient and "sporty" in the long run.
Josh
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Harold McElraft wrote:
Digital dashes are like digital clocks to me. They never tell me
enough information instantly.
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