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Does Honda use km/hr or the correct km/h?
Euric
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Sent: Friday, 2004-09-10 16:25
Subject: [USMA:31079] Fwd: RE: km/h on
speedometers
Don:
The Honda Civic is only sold with km/hr in Canada,
we just bought one and the manual states that the Canadian model is metric
only. I wished I could have got my USA one that way, I spent years
driving a 1972 Datsun 1200 with mph only in a metric country. It used to
fun to remember the conversions,
Also the most powerful argument that
is available to change from imperial to metric is life safety
90,000
people per year die of medical errors, one of the common ones is conversion
errors in weight which causes needless child death - use this to scare silent
the imperial thought police
Save the Children - Go
Metric.
Euric can you cut back on the number of emails it is very
distracting and makes the conversations a bit one
sided.
John
Subject: [USMA:31078] RE: km/h on
speedometers
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:16:56 -0600
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My understanding it that most, it not all,
Canadian cars display both
km/h (in larger font) and MPH (in smaller
font) on their speedometers,
in the reverse order of the U.S. Not
sure what their laws say, but they
do that to accommodate drivers who
travel into the U.S. with their cars,
probably the same reason both units
are universally displayed on U.S.
cars, for when they are driven into
Canada.
With the new English/metric button system, that probably
means that
Canadians can switch the speed display to MPH if they wish,
but there's
not much incentive to do that with all the road signs in
metric (just
like there's not much incentive to use the km/h units in the
U.S.
without corresponding road signs).
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: Euric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 2004
September 10 13:48
> To: Hillger, Don; U.S. Metric Association
>
Subject: Re: [USMA:31071] RE: km/h on speedometers
>
> I would
hope this applies to USA models only and GM cars sold outside
the
>
US
> are metric only.
>
> Euric
>
>
>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hillger, Don"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, 2004-09-10 14:05
>
Subject: [USMA:31071] RE: km/h on speedometers
>
>
>
> NOT true. As has been pointed out here on the listserv, GM has
gone
to
> > a system that looks like it has only MPH, but an
English/metric
button
> > causes the dial to move to show either
MPH or km/h. My wife has
this on
> > her new 2004
Bonneville, and Paul Trusten mentioned it being in a GM
car
> >
he rented.
> >
> > Besides the dial moving, a LED lights
up behind either the "MPH" or
> > "km/h" to show the units being
displayed. Pretty nifty system I
think.
> >
> >
> -----Original Message-----
> > > From:
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On
> >
Behalf
> > > Of Jason Darfus
> > > Sent: Friday,
2004 September 10 11:58
> > > To: U.S. Metric
Association
> > > Subject: [USMA:31069] RE: km/h on
speedometers
> > >
> > > All the current Cadillacs
have MPH-only speedometers. Go check
out
> > the
>
> > interior photos at http://www.cadillac.com
> > >
> >
>
> > > On Sep 10, 2004, at 13:44, Phil Chernack
wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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:
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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?
> > >
>
> > >
> >
>
John Nichols
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University,
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC Rm: A414 MD
3137, College Station, TX 77843-3137
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