Dashboard Lights — Dickeson

That’s the “metaphor trap.” It doesn’t work that way in a business. There is no array of instruments providing instant information. There are no brakes you can tap.

That software may work for those global or nationwide companies that have a need to assemble a lot of disparate Internet information from far-flung companies quickly in order to make decisions. There you can say the software application is like a dashboard—a simile. But it isn’t a Dashboard like in my car giving me instant readouts of rpm, fuel, door ajar, mph and the like. A dashboard metaphor it ain’t.