Re: Red Dash Gone?

[capalmer@baynetworks.com (Chris Palmer)]

 Gary said:
> Chris said;
> 
> > Yes, the red lighting is great for me at night.
> > BUT, at dawn and dusk the instruments become totally unreadable
> > for me, due to minor red/green colour blindness. For people
> > with full red/green colour blindness the red-lit instruments
> > are unreadable at night also. This is in some cases just a pain
> > (risk of speeding tickets etc.) and in other cases a real
> > safety problem (distraction due to fiddling the illumination
> > to try and read something, anything, on the speedo/tach.).
> > 
> My nephew is full red/green color blind.  So is his uncle (my
> brother-in-law).  They think it is a Mediterranean thing (Turkish Cypriots).
> Anyway, my nephew got my old 5ksct 5sp.  He has never complained about
> reading the dash at night or in low light situations.  My brother-in-law has
> a BuMWiper 740iL.  He has no complaints either.  I don't know why this
> contradicts what Chris said tho'.
 
 Maybe there are different types of "full" red/green.
 In any case, the red poses a significant problem for me in some
 specific situations, and an even bigger problem for some other
 people. Audi has lost some (small) number of sales due to this.

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