[78-L] fwd: The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology

[David Breneman]

--- On Fri, 3/4/11, DanKj <MLK402 at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Not to forget car buyers' apparent
> demand for a clock-like speedometer which only vaguely
> indicates speed, instead of a 
> precise digital display.  

There have, however, been a lot of studies that show that
the best way of conveying simple information at a glance
is with while numbers on a black round faced instrument,
with "normal" being at roughly the same place (12:00, 6:00,
etc.) on all the dials.  This has been known for a long
time, and it's why even digital displays in things like
airplanes, etc., still convey a lot of their information
in a way that looks like a gauge.  It's far easier, in a
car, to glance at the oil pressure gauge and see that the
needle is in the normal range, than to read the number
"65" and try to compute if that's good or bad, for which
model car.