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  Fair enough, i get that.
context: Digital speedometer, or simply giving a digital MPH is so dumb in comparison to a speedometer. The shitty part is, I can't even explain why. It just is.
  
  because you can easily interpret "rate of change" by observing how quickly a needle sweeps across a speedometer. an analog speedometer shows you speed (direclty) and acceleration (indirectly).
  it's much more difficult to interpret acceleration by trying to tell how quickly numbers are changing.
  i also find digital speedometers highly distracting. i drove my dad's car once and whenever i was rolling at slow speed the speedometer would change from double digits (10mph and above) to single digits (9mph and below). and that change from single-to-double digits was so obvious that it distracted me. every time the speed changed it drew my attention away from the road and onto the screen because it was changing from one to two numbers (or vice versa)
  i'm with you though. most technology in cars is just fluff that is used to pad the sales price. cars don't need to cost $50,000 they could easily cost significantly less if they ditched half the computers.
  another story:
  i drove a 2005 and i loved it. it got too old, so i replaced it with a 2008. it's the same car, but 3 years later and it has "fly by wire" controls meaning that when i turn the steering wheel i'm not actually turning a crank that turns a pinion that moves a rack back and forth. it means when i turn the steering wheel i am sending inputs to a computer, the computer interprets those inputs, and then applies power to the turning mechanism based on my inputs.
  it's so fucking stupid.
  i can feel the delay between when i turn my wheel or press my gas and when the car responds. there is latency. there is lag. it's under 1 second, but i can feel it.
  my last car, you could breathe on the gas pedal and feel the (subtle) response from the engine. it was instant.
  this new car, you press the pedal and it takes a half-second for the engine to respond to the command. >
  
  Facts. >
  
  Honestly, I love riding my motorcycle, which doesn't even have a gas gauge. >
  
  haha you'd hate mine then. Digital speedo, sat nav, phone connexion & music into your helmet, heated front and rear seats & grips... even has a fuel gauge!! >
  
  I ride my bike to escape from all that stuff.