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Re: Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

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Subject: Re: Where can I buy a large analogue meter?
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by: Ricky - Mon, 18 Apr 2022 04:02 UTC

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 1:13:55 PM UTC-4, Tim+ wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton <hami...@devnull.com> wrote:
> > On 2022-04-15, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Obviously you have never seen the evolution of cars, airplanes,
> >>> electronics and the advances that can be made in five years.
> >>>
> >> Obviously you haven't .
> >>
> >> Nothing much has changed in any of those fields - they are pretty mature
> >> tech.
> >
> > Coincidentally, I had a conversation this morning with an engineer who
> > works for Ford. He works in image processing; one of the projects
> > he worked on a few years ago enables the backup camera to initiate
> > braking if it sees an obstacle. He actually benefited from this
> > feature on a cloudy, gray day when he was backing up toward a gray car.
> >
> > My husband gave him an idea for additional features for automatic
> > headlights. He said he'd split his bonus with us if he gets one.
> >
> > There really is a lot more going on than you realize, TNP.
> >
> I think TNP has reached his “new tech” limit.
>
> The automatic headlights on my car are quite amazing. I haven’t worked out
> how the work but they’re a *lot* more sophisticated that a simple forward
> pointing photocell. I suspect some fairly serious image processing is going
> on.

I assume you mean the high beam control? I don't use it. It's pretty good dipping to low beam, but it seems like a lot of things prevent going back to high beam. I just work that myself.

Rick C.

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