In one of the car pictures, I see a glossy monitor (instrumentation panel). I think this is far from optimal. I think it should be a matte screen. The glossy monitor _will_ give unwanted reflections.
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That is one thing I never like on the dash of a car, things that reflect the sun into your eyes. Our car has chrome accents on the dash and it drives me nuts when the sun is glaring like a welder off those bits. Our Toyota plugin Prius Prime also has a larger computer screen and it become near impossible to read when the sun is shining on it. That is a complete fail to me.
This should not be a problem, there are filters and also sheets that restrict the viewing angle, so that your passenger does not see, when you drive too fast 😀
Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe some of the instrument clusters out there have an anti-reflection coating, like a camera lens. One car I owned had a curved shield so invisible it made everyone think there was no covering over the gauges at all. I had to tap on it to convince them otherwise. That type of surface might appear glossy at an oblique angle, but nearly invisible at 90 degrees.
Didn’t Tesla change from gloss to matt finish on their center councils because of finger prints?
Does Aptera themselves read this forum? Maybe they can comment on my concern? I'd like to buy an Aptera, but not if it has a glossy display (like I saw on a picture on the website).
@don i don't think that is a big enough reason to not get a car.
@Riley Well, if it costs only $22 extra to have a matte screen, then Aptera should deliver it by default, IMHO. BTW... don't these after market solutions hinder touch control (partly)?
The proliferation of large screens in today's vehicles has caused a big glare problem. Much of the time the screen in our Prius Prime is unreadable from the driver's seat because of glare. Without a passenger to operate the screen it is worse than worthless because you'd have to pull over to change radio stations, temp, etc when the screen is unreadable.