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A comment on The laws of shitty dashboards.

Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by wyc on Sunday September 14, 2014 @05:31PM (#8316299)
"Take care dashboards for example. They use vast amount of real estate to display information that is useless 99% of the time. How often do you need to know the RPM on an automatic car? Can’t you just take that stupid dial out and put something useful instead?."

Assuming the author meant car, this would be very dangerous (i.e. irreversible engine damage): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline

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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by paulcothenet on Sunday September 14, 2014 @05:47PM (#8316336)
Typo corrected. I'm not saying you should let the users go in the red without knowing. But does it have to be a big dial that takes a 1/3 of the dashboard?
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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by jschwartzi on Sunday September 14, 2014 @06:06PM (#8316393)
What engine-critical information would you replace the extra real-estate with?
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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by jackmoore on Sunday September 14, 2014 @06:47PM (#8316510)
Nothing is always an option. Including anything that is unhelpful dilutes focus on the things that are.
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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by jodrellblank on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @10:55AM (#8330282)
We're talking about an automatic car - make the ECU take over so you can't redline it.
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