And faster speedometers make your warranty run out faster, which nobody except the car companies like.
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Magnus Danielson < [email protected]> wrote: > Thomas A. Frank skrev: > > On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Burt I. Weiner wrote: > > > >> I suppose a good comparison would be: How accurate does the > >> speedometer in the car really need to be and why. > > > > Accurate enough so that if its reading matches the posted sign, you > > don't receive a ticket? > > An engineer pointed out that due to the spreading of readings on various > speedometers un-necessary take-overs where performed by those having a > higher speed for the same reading than those having a lower speed for > the same reading. Thus, the precaution is to some degree compromised by > the lack of consistency in the degraded reading. This is further > compromised by people knowing their speedometers is degraded, so they > form their own rules of how to interprent them in a favorable fashion. > The tires and air pressure in them comes in as things compromising the > scale. My speedometer gives different readings on my summer-tires than > my winter tires. > > I think I actually prefer more exact speedometer in all cars. Then there > is less room for subjective judgements and less of a discussion altogether. > > I think we already did some work in a similar fields like weigth, > lengths and time... > > I learned alot of what my speedometer told me when looking at my TomTom > reading. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
