Gauges colour - hint from Mazda6
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Gauges colour - hint from Mazda6
We all have seen the pictures of the gauges glowing in a nice blue... and the center console display (radio and climate control readout) glowing in a nice red. Obviously, one or the other will have to change colour so they both match for the production model.
The Mazda6's gauges glow red, so I think it will be a good possibility that the instrument cluster for the RX-8 will be all red too. Here is the Mazda6 gauges:
Note that this isn't a great picture. I think in real life they gauges are more red than the yellowish orange shown above.
Anyway, what do you guys and gals think?
The Mazda6's gauges glow red, so I think it will be a good possibility that the instrument cluster for the RX-8 will be all red too. Here is the Mazda6 gauges:
Note that this isn't a great picture. I think in real life they gauges are more red than the yellowish orange shown above.
Anyway, what do you guys and gals think?
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Blue looks cool, but I find it extremely hard to focus on during nighttime driving. For some reason, my eyes just cannot focus on the numbers. I can read them, but they are always fuzzy. A friend has a cell phone with the blue lighted keypad, I can't focus on that either, but the second the blue lights go off, I can focus just fine.
My exGF has a beetle and yeah, it is cool, but I find it hardest to read clearly out of red and green. My Acura RSX is the first car I've owned with red dials, and they are money. Look sharp (okay, not as cool as blue), but I can read them very easily.
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
My exGF has a beetle and yeah, it is cool, but I find it hardest to read clearly out of red and green. My Acura RSX is the first car I've owned with red dials, and they are money. Look sharp (okay, not as cool as blue), but I can read them very easily.
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
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I'm stealing this from the Mazda6 (Atenza) forum:
The blue is very cool looking. There is a reason for the orange/red spectrum for night lighting though. Light toward the blue end of the spectrum can negatively affect your night vision. That's why airplane cockpit illumination is almost universally red. That's also why there's some debate about the benefits of HID lighting for cars. We intuitively assume that lighting that's closer to the characteristics of daylight would be better, but our night vision and our day vision are very different. Those with HID setups may notice that the area within the beam looks great, but they are not able to see objects outside of the beam nearly as well as with halogens (which are brightest in the yellow spectrum). Our eyes are biased toward the red spectrum due to the nature of how light travels. That's why red cars are so eye-catching, and also why many sirens are both red and blue. The eye will see the red first, but blue travels further.
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Originally posted by Jerome81
Blue looks cool, but I find it extremely hard to focus on during nighttime driving. For some reason, my eyes just cannot focus on the numbers.?
Blue looks cool, but I find it extremely hard to focus on during nighttime driving. For some reason, my eyes just cannot focus on the numbers.?
Ever tried to focus on blue christmas tree lights?? Same principle..
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I wish it was white and amber. White along the tic marks, and amber for the redline, the numbers, etc. The needle needs to be different color though; it's hard to see with the bright color of the gauges.
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I like red, the bmw's my parents have had red lights and its actually really comfortable at night. Green is fine too, blue looks great, but if what your saying about blue affecting night vision is true, then i prefer the red. I do most of my driving at night, being that im nocturnal.
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Originally posted by Jerome81
Blue looks cool, but I find it extremely hard to focus on during nighttime driving. For some reason, my eyes just cannot focus on the numbers. I can read them, but they are always fuzzy. A friend has a cell phone with the blue lighted keypad, I can't focus on that either, but the second the blue lights go off, I can focus just fine.
My exGF has a beetle and yeah, it is cool, but I find it hardest to read clearly out of red and green. My Acura RSX is the first car I've owned with red dials, and they are money. Look sharp (okay, not as cool as blue), but I can read them very easily.
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
Blue looks cool, but I find it extremely hard to focus on during nighttime driving. For some reason, my eyes just cannot focus on the numbers. I can read them, but they are always fuzzy. A friend has a cell phone with the blue lighted keypad, I can't focus on that either, but the second the blue lights go off, I can focus just fine.
My exGF has a beetle and yeah, it is cool, but I find it hardest to read clearly out of red and green. My Acura RSX is the first car I've owned with red dials, and they are money. Look sharp (okay, not as cool as blue), but I can read them very easily.
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
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Night Blindness
Originally posted by Jerome81
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
Isn't there some thing about red doesn't cause night blindness? I was watching We Were Soldiers and noticed all the lights at the base are red. I asked a good friend why that is, and he said that red is least harsh on your eyes and doesn't cause night blindness, which I guess is that time between after you leave a lighted area and when your eyes get adjusted.
Anyone care to add to this?
Here's the real deal. It has to do with the type of cells in your retina: rods and cones. Rods are responsible for black and white vision, cones are for color. Rods have a lower light threshold than cones so they mainly operate in low light conditions (at night). That's why you don't see color in the dark.
When the light gets bright enough for color, the rods are overwhelmed and essentially turn off. That is why it takes a minute or two to see in the dark when the lights go out.....the rods are essentially recharging. The exception to this is red. The light wavelength of red (which is low) doesn't activate the rods, therefore your night vision is preserved.
Hope that answers your question....
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yes, and all of the lighting in the aircaft I fly in use green lighting, because we use NVGs most of the time. low-intensity green light is the only thing that won't jack up the nods.
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Originally posted by said7
Isnt it with Green as well? All nightvision is usually green isnt it?
Isnt it with Green as well? All nightvision is usually green isnt it?
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Originally posted by zoom44
hey, is that pic of the right hand drive dash? the windsheild wiper wand is on the right instead of the left!
hey, is that pic of the right hand drive dash? the windsheild wiper wand is on the right instead of the left!