Google's AI Overview earnestly explains 'dashboard' comes from horse-carriage dash-boards
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-20
A lighthearted AI-circle moment: Google's AI Overview answers why a dashboard is called a dashboard, earnestly tracing the etymology to the wooden dash-board on 19th-century horse-drawn carriages that blocked mud flung up by horses' hooves, long before cars and data dashboards existed.
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