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Definition: automotive display


Automobile dashboards are a whole lot different today than they were in the past; witness the following touchscreen examples. See touchscreen.






Tesla's LCD Screens
The top image, which shows the vehicle's relationship to the cars on the road, is the dashboard directly in front of the driver. The big screen provides the navigation and entertainment.






Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX)
Introduced in 2021 and powered by NVIDIA GPUs, the OLED Hyperscreen creates a dashboard more than four and a half feet wide. See OLED and GPU. (Image courtesy of NVIDIA Corporation.)






Much Less Complicated Years Ago
This is from a page in the owner's manual of a 1955 Chevrolet. Although cars were designed with a lot of flair in that decade, their dashboards were very simple.