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Gauges have been digital for decades now. Even in the 1990s many of them were digital not analog. Sure there was a needle so they looked analog, but the data came in digitally and them the computer on the display decided how to move the needle to whatever digital position. (I can think of 3 different ways to implement this and I'm not an electrical engineers - who I would expect to know more than me about what works)

>>bluGil+(OP)
Yeah, people need to understand that their cars have been rolling computers for a really long time. If you live in a wealthy country, the chance that any car you are still driving isn't highly computerized is very low.

For the past few years, we've started to see major UX changes (buttons & mechanical gauges going away) and huge amounts of new infotainment that are now possible because we've stopped hiding the digital nature of everything.

Lots of us hate that, but it does no good to focus the hate on the wrong thing ;)

>>bluGil+(OP)
I think they are talking about the UI, so a pointy-needle that is controlled by a computer would not be considered digital. The details inside the engine are less relevant to the user, the point I think is that the display is fixed-function.

>>bee_ri+x5
If the pointy-needle thing is really graphics on a LCD how is that counted?

>>bluGil+Xp
I’d count it as an edge case. It is an informal definition anyway, so no surprises that it doesn’t cover everything