Driving at 200 mph is tricky. There’s so much happening, so quickly, that the driver needs a superhuman ability to focus on what matters and throw away everything else. To help with that task, Ford ...
There are two schools of instrument cluster thought in this world. The first, which is wrong, is that the cluster is simply a place to convey the most important and relevant information to the driver.
With all the EV hype in the air, you’d be forgiven for thinking electric vehicles are something new. But of course, EVs go way, way back, to the early 19th century by some reckonings. More recently ...
Modern vehicles are incredibly complex machines and that’s before factoring in high-tech features such as semi-autonomous driving systems. Much of this technology is front and center as automakers are ...
As much ink has been spilled over the Tesla Model 3 in the past two weeks, we actually don’t know much about it. In fact, we know shockingly little! That’s exactly how Elon Musk likes it, I think.
As a driver, there are few parts of a car you look at more than the instrument cluster. Your attention there is divided among occasional glances at the speedometer and tach, and if you’re really fancy ...
The instrument clusters of today's cars show a clear trend away from electromechanical pointer instruments and toward solutions with significant focus on graphical displays. This paper provides an ...
Digital instrument clusters are poised to supersede analog clusters in next-generation vehicles. This may seem surprising at first, since digital clusters require higher-end CPUs and much more ...
The level of sophistication attained in automotive instrumentation has come a long way in the annals of history. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the first known use of the term “idiot ...
Most mid- and high-end cars today have full LCD panel-based instrument clusters rather than traditional fixed dials. These displays are versatile as they can be reconfigured based on mode of the car ...
Apple just unveiled an ambitious new update to CarPlay that powers an automobile’s entire instrument cluster. Highlighted at the WWDC22 keynote on Monday, the new CarPlay goes way beyond music and ...