Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!bcdoody From: bcdoody@wateng.UUCP (Brian C. Doody) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Digital Electronics in New Cars ? Message-ID: <1524@wateng.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:56:50 EDT Article-I.D.: wateng.1524 Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:56:50 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 05:53:35 EDT References: <1409@emory.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 16 [] The current issue (Oct 84?) of IEEE Spectrum magazine has an interesting article concerning electronics in the new LUXURY 85's. For an example (this is from memory, I don't have it with me) the 85 Mark VII will have a CRT display in the center of the dash. On the steering wheel are buttons to select the various functions of the CRT: provide a control panel for heating and cooling or provide the switches for a radio, etc... This is a touch screen, so the driver just touches the displayed function ("Warmer", for example) and it is executed. Sounds rather neat, but I'd like to play with it in the driveway for a while before taking it out - one might tend to forget about the road while marvelling at the neat CRT! -- Brian C. Doody, EE, University of Waterloo ...!{allegra | decvax | clyde | ihnp4 }!watmath!wateng!bcdoody