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A dashboard that fully takes advantage of people’s visual perception both enhances the user experience and can, in fact, save lives and preserve equipment. Visual perception is key to safe motorcycling. Figure 1-Analog motorcycle dashboards Visual perception is key to safe motorcycling. On some bikes, a geared odometer shows how far you’ve traveled to date-and perhaps, on more upscale bikes, there’s a mechanical tripometer that a rider can reset by turning a small knob on the speedometer housing.
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Informational elements have tended to be sparse. For example, such indicators display measures of speed, how hard the engine’s working, and perhaps state alerts like a light that indicates the transmission is in neutral or a light that flashes to indicate a turn signal is on. Historically, bikes have presented indicators, controls, and other elements of information in analog displays like those shown in Figure 1. As Melissa Holbrook Pierson writes, “People tell me I think too much, but I don’t see how such a thing is possible, unless of course it is either in the middle of sex or at the apex of a high-speed turn.”
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Indeed, motorcyclists must perform so many actions and be aware of so many stimuli, they need to be able to think less and act more readily. That’s why signals and information about status, situation, and progress are so important and need to be readily and easily discernible.