Most drivers focus on the environment immediately outside their vehicle and not their speedometer.
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The added cost of these systems provides information that is completely redundant with my speedometer.
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The last nuisance to bemoan is the speedometer, whose script was hard to read.
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There seems to be a vibration when the speedometer reaches between 40 and 45 mph.
If we kept the speedometer at 80 we could do it with a short night's sleep.
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But a driver who stares solely at the speedometer is likely to have a nasty crash.
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The radio settings were in the speedometer, and the tachometer was where the speedometer should have been.
The section in front of the driver replaces traditional instrumentation with digital gauges for the speedometer and other readouts.
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The speedometer was originally put in the middle of the dashboard, cleverly covering the hole where the pole went.
The front seats are comfortable, and the speedometer and other gauges behind the steering wheel are stylish and clearly legible.
The car retains its traditional center-placed speedometer and tachometer and basic carbon-black interior, with lots of color, rooftop and trim options.
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In the prototype, a flat-panel video display is bolted to the place where instruments such as the speedometer would normally be mounted.
Some models include a digital speedometer that can be easier to spot and process at a glance than a conventional needle gauge.
Newspapers and television newscasts, long accustomed to seeing the Dow as the speedometer of the market, filled the column inches and television screens.
Drive 70mph on the Long Island Expressway (19mpg), and the needle will move only a quarter of the way around the speedometer.
Daredevils will be able to use the front-facing camera to show their speedometer as they narrate attempts to break 200 mph in their new sports car.
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Racer Pierre-Henri Raphanel proved it in July, when he pushed the speedometer of this third and final edition of Bugatti's iconic Veyron line to 268 miles per hour.
The man who ultimately did, Charles Babbage, was as much the Renaissance man as Alberti--he also invented the speedometer, the cowcatcher and the mortality tables that are the basis of today's life insurance.
Instead of a regular ol' speedometer in the center of the driver side dash, you'll encounter a 7-inch instrument cluster that you'll be able to customize based on your specific auto info needs.
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The scooters are unmistakably MINI, thanks to design features like their circular central instrument cluster and speedometer, the prominent indicator lamps that originally appeared on classic Mini cars, and the chrome trims on the body of the bike.
The cool part comes when they cut to the (luxurious) interior of the sedan and focus on the dashboard, where the Distance Plus data is displayed inside the speedometer as two tiny cars moving towards and away from one another, in response to real world conditions.
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The digital "eyebrow" display at the top of the instrument panel provides high visibility for the Eco indicator and speedometer, while the lower liquid crystal meter display houses the new percentage style state-of-charge meter, power meter, battery temperature gauge, multi-function display, remaining energy gauge, capacity level gauge and distance to empty display.
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