Exactly....just because it doesn't move, that doesn't make it a "dummy" guage. How fake would that be? Start your car, its already on half so you'd never know when its warm/hot/cold, lol.
So basically you're saying that because the signal has to go from the sensor, to the ECU and to the guage its not as accurate as the gen 1? The time factor is almost unmeasurable, or should I say "understandable" by the average person.
I will agree with you on one thing, Gen 2's have a "delay" on ALL the instrument guages. Rev your car up...the rpm guage keeps going up but the engine is audibly coming back down towards idle. There is a HUGE delay in that factor, but I think its intentional so the average driver doesn't think that the gas guage is f'd up because it moves up and down while turning, or that the car is about to overheat because the temp guage keeps moving up and down.
As far as accuracy goes, given the appropriate amount of time needed for the newer guages to "adjust" I HIGHLY doubt they are "dummy" compared to Gen 1's.
I have a temp gun....someone bring me a gen 2 and we'll figure this out.