Digital Dashboard
Digital dashboards were all the rage in the 1980s because technology was advancing quite a bit. The most notable digital dashboards were in GM vehicles as the company was pushing the technology hard. The problem was that most Digital dashboards weren’t very reliable and the cost to replace one was astronomical (via Core 77).
But digital dashboards paved the way for us to have the car interiors that we’ve got today. The digital dashboards and infotainment centers in our cars all originated from this extinct 1980s technology. It’s interesting to see how far automotive technology has come and how far it will go.