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      04-21-2013, 04:35 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by ovekvam View Post
There are tons of dials and graphs available for the formula one cars, but they are in the depot, on a screen in front of the race engineers. Some of the BMW customers are also engineers, and should have the ability to understand the dials.

Saab used to have an interesting concept, called black panel. When you enabled this, pretty much all instruments (except speedometer) went black. If the dial was about to show interesting values (outside normal range), it would light up and get the attention from the driver.
I think we're saying the same thing, angel I guess the solution for those who understand vehicle metrics is to use one of those OBD dongles, and a smartphone. I haven't checked what gets reported via the BMW OBD, can anyone advise? I'll try my ScanGauge later today.
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