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by rwmj 3362 days ago
My previous car - Toyota Yaris - had an LCD speedometer in the center of the dashboard, and it worked fine. On the Yaris there was a system of mirrors so that the speedo was focused at infinity, thus you could look at it without your eyes adjusting focus at all.

Edit: Picture of how that looked: http://s908.photobucket.com/user/406executiveHDI/media/c497e...
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leephillips 3362 days ago
"a system of mirrors so that the speedo was focused at infinity"

This is a brilliant idea. I've never even heard of this model.

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rwmj 3362 days ago
Yes it was quite clever, and meant you could glance down very quickly to see your speed. I don't exactly know how it worked.

Incidentally I think this may be why the LCD looks slightly blurred in the photograph above.

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lj3 3362 days ago
Your point being? The model 3 clearly doesn't have that.
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