|
|||||||
| Other Tech News The latest community based technology news from across the globe. (If you aren't a community newsposter then use the "Submit News" section.) |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools |
Oct 26, 2005, 02:22 PM
|
#1 |
|
DriverHeaven Extreme Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 7,275
Rep Power: 89   |
Car toys: Driven to distraction
As an engineer, Steve Elias loves gadgets. But the dashboard on his 2005 Pontiac GTO is too much for him.
It "lights up like a Christmas tree," he said, and provides detailed information like average speed and distance traveled, to the last one-hundredth of a mile. It has become so overwhelming that Elias, of Amherst, New Hampshire, has resorted to sticking electrical tape over parts of the display. "I kind of miss the old dashboard where the needle just went around," he said. "This one attracts my eye. When I'm driving, I don't want to be looking at the dashboard. I want to be looking at the road." __________ Read More / Source: International Herald Tribune |
|
|
|
Oct 26, 2005, 04:58 PM
|
#2 |
|
Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,648
Rep Power: 0 |
i personally like all the lights...but it does piss me off that cars are moving away from providing a "dimmer switch" and you just get stuck with it on "blindingly bright" mode at night
|
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools | |
|
|
