The latest ruling seems like a serious oversight since it mentions that km/h-only speedometers would be useless in the USA given that speed limits are indicated only in miles per hour.
Given this logic, it seems incorrect to allow speedometers labelled in miles-per-hour only since such cars would be useless to visitors to Canada and Mexico, where speed limits are posted only in kilometers per hour. This may be essentially moot given that all car manufacturers include km/h on their speedometers and (as Phil points out) have done so for some time now. However, I'm curious if anyone knows how to submit a comment to the Feds (and where to do so) to see if they could be persuaded to issue a new regulation (assuming current legislation allows it) requiring both mph and km/h on speedometers. Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Chernack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [USMA:31065] RE: km/h on speedometers > Terry, > Here is the answer: > http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/May/Day-15/i11493.htm. > > Unfortunately, it is not mandatory to place km/h on speedometers but it is > mandatory to place MPH. However, I have not seen a speedometer on any car > manufactured after 1977 for use in the U.S. that did not include both. > > Phil > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Terry Simpson > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:36 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:31064] km/h on speedometers > > Do cars in the U.S.A. have to have km/h on them by law? > > Is it Federal or State law? > > What date did it become mandatory? > > Is the actual law available online? >
