The history of Electronic instrument cluster

The first application of an electronic instrument cluster, in a production automobile, was in the 1976 Aston Martin Lagonda.In the United States they were an option in many motor vehicles manufactured in the 1980s and 1990s, and were standard on some luxury vehicles at times, including some models made by Cadillac, Chrysler and Lincoln.

Digital dashes were considered to be unpopular during the years when they were widely produced,They were hard to see in the strong sunlight or other bright light, they took away the sense of continuous acceleration that is provided by an analog speedometer, They were expensive to repair in the event of a malfunction. As a result of these issues, digital instrument panels were phased out of vehicles throughout the 1990s, and have been replaced with traditional analog gauges in most vehicles, including those from luxury divisions.

In the 2000s, digital speedometers have been produced in some hybrid vehicles, including the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic. Most digital speedometers have had green numbers displayed on a dark green or black background. The current model Honda Civic has an upper digital dashboard with white numbers against a blue screen, digital fuel and temperature gauges. The lower dashboard has an analog tachometer and digital odometer. Automotive head-up displays have seen applications in several cars, augmenting analog gauges with a digital readout on the windshield glass.

Automakers have begun offering vehicles with LCD instrument clusters that display "analog" gauges on screen, while integrating additional interactive features.

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