Why the fuck do cars still have analog speedometers? Surely digital ones would be more accurate and much easier to read without looking away from the road for too long.

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An analogue gauge is useful because you can see the rate of change not just the current value.

You can design a digital readout to intuitively provide the same. And I think you're overstating the importance of rate of change in analog guages that you find in commuter cars.

Some sort of scale on the side/bottom of the screen would solve that easy enough. It's only really useful when accelerating into the highway or from a red light, not terribly important.

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