Engineering

There is a very slim line between good engineering & good engineering with common sense. A lot of engineers I work with are excellent with numbers, but have very poor understanding of how to present this information to a non-engineer. Here is a good example

It’s all well and good to have little pictures of the tires on the display, but this is completely worthless as a means of conveying information. The tire that was low, below 25 psi at the time, was the second from the left in the display. Which tire does that correspond to? I had to use a gauge to figure out which one was low—exactly what I would have done if all I’d had was the warning light on the dash.

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