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  Louis Leblanc

  14 years ago

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  I'm thinking like SJB for the gradients. But more importantly they didn't take into consideration size. When is the last time you actually bothered to know how you're battery was doing or how your hot your engine is. You usually have time to look at your dash when that strikes you. With an LCD screen, they could make the things that you should care about bigger with the condition your are in. At highway speed, your speed, gas and efficiency is useful. In the city, your tachometer might take up some importance along with the signal lights.
  
  Interestingly, they didn't touch the speedometer witch is by far the most used gauge, though probably a choice of Ford. Having a gauge that had a hue gradient with speed would be great, green for [100-110km/h], yellow for [110-120km/h] or what ever.
  
  To me there wasn't a big difference in readability. I couldn't see the red mark on the left one and the right one was a blur. I did it again and somehow the red bar stood out for me. Though I'm left eye dominant.

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  SJB

  14 years ago

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  The "wings" component of this design seems (at first glance!) to be its most effective element.
  
  As for colour:
  how about those yellow "drain" bars transforming into red or orange as they near the critical zone, with the contrast increasing as the urgency increases? (An intuitively recognizable gradient rather than an absolute)
  
  A quantifiable gage (faint, precise lines with numbers), superimposed, could satisfy the car enthusiast/engineer driver, who wants a quotable number attached to that urgency.

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  Mark Dowman

  14 years ago

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  I was looking at the white dot, and as the displays flashed, I was able to retain some data from the yellow/blue display. I saw that there was something on the bottom left, but the "traditional" display didn't register in the periphery.
  I would hope that the proposed solution is user-configurable, to accommodate different users.

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  Wouter Brinkman

  14 years ago

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  I'm not sure if I am the exception to the rule (so to say) but I found the more traditional meter on the left far more readable. Its mostly black on white, which is good, since we hardly can distinguish color in peripheral vision anyway. (The yellow/blue combo just was a big blur to me) How come a design firm can ignore such basic knowledge and sell this as an improvement?
  
  

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