It's literally a problem that I've recognized when driving on track in a purpose-built race car with a digital dash. The older ones were fully linear, simple displays and they were not great for informing the driver while minimizing task load. Today many of the racing display companies use a curved tach bar to visually shorten the left end and prioritize the key rev range to the center.
They've solved for the same problem with the slope on the left end. The Emira does that exact thing in the curved display for Sport mode.
Fair enough, that’s irrefutable. You were right and I was wrong. Thanks for taking the time to find examples and explain, I’ve learnt something new.
No worries at all! It's a weird counter-intuitive problem that definitely only becomes apparent when you're in the moment on track with the thing, overwhelmed by sensory input, and you realize that there's a lot of stuff moving and flashing on the display and only a portion of it is relevant to your needs and interests.
Auto makers should really offer different dials themes like Apple does on their watch face! Some like it simple, some like it retro, some like techie…. Etc….Here's the Maserati MC20 display for comparison... Looks fantastic to me! Only thing I'd change is "gas" to "throttle" instead.
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Agreed! With a digital display like this, it would be fantastic if there were switchable options added in addition to the standard 3 layouts. There are a ton of digital displays with good layout options that they could crib from, and this is exactly the kind of "free upgrade" that over-the-air firmware updates enable in modern vehicles. There's just no downside to continuing to develop and backport updates and improvements to software into an existing fleet of vehicles. It doesn't prevent owners buying newer cars from the same brand when you're talking about a low volume manufacturer like this. Customers today understand intuitively that the software isn't inherent to the car, it is a separate thing that should be serviced and maintained/upgraded over time with any well-managed technical product, whether it's a phone or a vehicle. Customers are buying the hardware, and the software just enables the experience that the hardware promises to deliver.
were u late for work??? hah
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The rev counter is useful when you are figuring out how you are optimizing your line in a given corner. As you start to repeat laps more and more cleanly, the fine-tuning of the racing line and the entry/exit speed for a particular corner start to gain a ton of importance, and the rev counter gives you a much better impression of whether you've optimized the line for putting torque to the ground at the transition point or corner exit than a speedometer will. The noise of the engine can tell you when to shift if you're very well-acclimated to a particular motor, but it won't tell you exactly how far into the torque band you've "solved the puzzle" for in terms of racing line and brake/throttle transition optimization through a particular corner or track feature. Setting very fast lap times is ultimately about how much you're able to avoid slowing down, rather than how fast you're able to accelerate. In a sanctioned race series usually everyone has more or less the same accelerative potential, and even with very well understood and executed racing lines it's the timing and smoothness of the transition from braking to throttle mid-corner that often separates the fastest from the merely fast. The timing of that transition point can change quite a bit depending on where in the rev band you are and how much torque is immediately available at a given RPM.
To be fair, the "linear" tach on your old race bike is visually optimized for the 10k to 16k sweep, because that's what's across the top of the dial. That was an intentional design choice. If it were rotated with the zero on the left, the 10k at 3'oclock and the 16k somewhere under the bottom of the dial past 6'oclock, you'd find it far less useful.
Honestly I think this is a huge improvement over my current M2 Competition's instrumentation.
In my M4 Comp, I never even use the cluster, I think the steering wheel gets in the way and there's too much stuff going on -- so much so that I just use the heads up display. I had an S2000 before and really just loved the focus on RPM & Speed.
The point is it's an entire sweep and yes, it's optimized for the upper RPM... just like most cars(?)
The point I'm making is that I rarely have to look at it. Only for optimization. You develop an ear and a feel. On a bike especially, my head is usually pointing somewhere other than the gauge cluster.
):I have experience with both bikes and cars and there are "momentum bikes" as well. Again, everything you're saying applies to both, I'm not sure what it has to do with the gauge cluster anyway. There's actually a lot less task loading in a car. Everything happens so much slower
No apologies necessary... always fun to have this type of dialogue. To me the gauge cluster doesn't matter much and that was the entire point. You get used to anything and once you get to expert level it's all automatic anyway. You just get so tuned into everything. Honestly, the backwards fuel gauge bugs me more than the linear RPM gauge! LOL
That dash! That sound! Off to the classified ads!
ive never owned, but drove a DBS for the weekend, years ago and yes its weird seeing the rev counter that way, its also weird as it stays very low or at least mine did...V12 of course.
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