Automobile Blog April Archive

• A dashboard, dash board, and sometimes fascia in British English, is a control panel located under the windscreen of an automobile. It contains indicators, dials, controls and displays to assist operation of the vehicle
• Types of dashboards: Lawn mowers, farm tractors, and earlier automobiles sometimes have little more than a steering wheel and ignition switch.
• Under the aegis of a safety program initiated by Robert McNamara, padded, or safety dashboards were introduced in 1956 by Ford under the name "Safeguard". Consumers showed little interest
• The top of a dashboard may contain speakers for an audio system, and vents for the heating and air conditioning system. A glovebox is often found on the passenger side, and sometimes on both sides
• In more modern cars, automotive navigation systems are mounted in the dashboard. Increasingly, manufacturers are experimenting with moving all display portions to the centre
• Instrument fashion: Vehicles concentrating on performance, whether built by race teams or by hobbyists, as well as those of minor automobile manufacturers, have always used functional instruments made by specialist firms