dashboard
Sign in to saveAlso known as control panel (engineering), dash, instrument panel, fascia, IP (engineering), instrument cluster, car dashboard, automobile dashboard
thumb|right|upright=1.3|The dashboard of a Bentley Continental GTC
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- Etymology
- Dashboard features
- Padding and safety
- Fashion in instrumentation
- Electronic instrument cluster
- History
- Advantages and drawbacks
- LCDs
- Railway applications
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|upright=1.3|The dashboard of a Bentley Continental GTC
A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel or IP, or fascia) is a control panel set within the central console of a vehicle, boat, or cockpit of an aircraft or spacecraft. Usually located directly ahead of the driver (or pilot), it displays instrumentation and controls for the vehicle's operation. An electronic equivalent may be called an electronic instrument cluster, digital instrument panel, digital dash, digital speedometer or digital instrument cluster. By analogy, a succinct display of various types of related visual data in one place is also called a dashboard, such as a dashboard in computing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dashboard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.