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Re:Software is eating the car by mike00632 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:04PM (#27464297)
I think backlit E-ink screens would be great for cars. I too want something I can see well in the day.
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Re:Software is eating the car by smolder on Thursday June 10, 2021 @03:31PM (#27464626)
E-ink is slow/inefficient to react, so probably not suitable for speedometer and tachometer type gauges. Apart from that, I agree.
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Re:Software is eating the car by lamontcg on Thursday June 10, 2021 @04:47PM (#27465606)
my truck still has a physical dial for the speedo and tach.

(although i've never understood why it has a tach since its a manual anyway... but i guess i can close my eyes and imagine my V6 ranger is a corvette...)

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Re:Software is eating the car by smolder on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:15AM (#27470963)
Perhaps they can be fast enough and my assumption was wrong, but I was imagining an e-ink version of a mechanical gauge like that as being sort of blurry and perhaps more delayed than the real thing.
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