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This is an automotive dashboard on a high-end Lexus supercar. Continuing our look at visuals of (non-business) dashboards (and scoreboards), this is an LCD Tachometer automotive dashboard on the Lexus LFA supercar.
(“One of the most expensive Japanese cars ever.” A European TV show suggested status-conscious owners would loudly announce “I’m getting into the expensive Lexus”, making the studied insult this would normally be an oxymoron. Don’t know what the show’s editors drive, but the last we checked your “regular” Lexus was still heavily associated with the 1%. Car & Driver reportedly effused over the supercar, claiming it was a bargain compared to cars like the more expensive Ferrari that it outperformed. Before we get too excited about its state-of-the-art internal combustion engine, as data scientists we’ll state clearly our belief that the future is with alternative propulsion systems like the Tesla’s electric motor. Electric motors have incredible torque and acceleration once the energy storage problems are addressed.)
The tachometer in this automotive dashboard is entirely computer generated. This has advantages and disadvantages that Lexus took advantage of. A simulated tachometer needle in an automotive dashboard can move around much faster than a real one. This automotive dashboard played both to the strengths of the Lexus LFA engine (which can accelerate quite quickly) as well as providing design challenges to ensure that the gauge’s output remained meaningful to the eye. The next time you’re looking at a business intelligence dashboard for a software application to do data visualization on your BI data, you can be inspired by the Lexus supercar tachometer in this automotive dashboard.
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