** Reply to note from Ezra Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:35:24 -0700
> Tom Wade wrote (in part): > > > New cars are still being sold with imperial dash controls. I'm getting > > a new one at the moment, and I've requested metric speed and odometer. > > Tom's message reflects my frustration last March when driving a 2003 Fiat around Eire. The speed limits were posted in mph and I could deal with those, but (very nearly) all the distance signs were in km while the gauges in the car were all miles. What was *really* annoying was the car had LCD instruments but there was no way of switching the computer to display km. -- Jon Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, Windows and OS/2 U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/
