At least in this cheap version of the dashboard they left the indicator lights separate from the screen for higher reliability.
(This is a BMW stereotype joke.)I fucking hate digital LCD display speedometers that inevitably WILL break down over time, creating a problem that never existed since the invention of cars. Newer cars lean more towards it and I HATE IT.
You know what happens when LCD screens show the same area constantly changing between the same few images? They burn down to the display over time. The worst place ever to integrate it is a speed display. You know what has worked for years with no issue whatsoever? A fucking analog stick that points down what your speed is.
Yes, because speedometers never broke or got misaligned in the history of automobiles, ever. Only once we started using LCDs did this occur…
The sticks were digitally driven for quite a while as well. Managed to short circuit a 2004 VW Passat’s electronics, the sticks started to point in random directions all over the place while the car was in motion. And I don’t mean shaking, just going to a random value and settling on it every 1.5 seconds.
Was very spooky.
I don’t know, I have a lot of old laptops with perfect screens, and usually some soldering dies first. My previous monitor’s inverter died, not the panel, it was perfect. Burn in is only a serious problem on oleds, rare on tft. Other parts will die before the screen in a car
Modern analog speedometers are just small servos, displaying digital data from the computer, actually an lcd has far less parts, far fewer point of failures
apparently they use small stepper motors for the dials, it’s why there’s a homing sequence at the start (where all the dials go to 0)
Also the old way with a cable was always fucking up and getting stuck or just being way off. Digital ftw.
Yup, has multiple 80s VWs that had broken speedos a one point or another, and US old cars tended to have fluttering wildly inaccurate speedometers too. Have had good results with most stepper motor based garages do far but most of them are under 12 years old that ive seen.
Have some COMFORT, it’s dead center of the meme 😂🤣
