---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron Stone <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [USMA:50757] Automobiles w/ metric options To: [email protected]
i recently drove a Chevy Impala rental for about one month in and around the California Bay Area. i switched the console to metric units mainly to have temperature displayed in terms of C. the console also displayed speed in terms of 'km/h' for which at first the higher numeric value had surprised me. yet i soon adapted to 'km/h' and didn't experience much difficulty observing road speed limits that were anyway posted in terms of the customary 'miles per hour'. i am unaware of any console or road speed guideline that is yet configurable in terms of an AAT ICAS meter solana (meters per tik) comparison [ http://www.aatideas.org/icas/2092.xht], however it may be that the meter solana comparison is more robustly metric than those scales that are expressed in terms of a customarily-derived hour. now on holiday, cheers, Ron On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > I wonder if anyone knows of any vehicles sold in the US which have the > capability of switching to full metric at the push of a button. I mean all > of the following: speed, distance covered, outside temperature, and (if > available on the vehicle) distance to empty tank, average speed, coolant > temperature, oil pressure, instantaneous and overall fuel economy, and > anything else (I can't think of any others). > > I owned a first edition Honda Insight that offered all of these by simply > turning a switch. A 2004 Chevy truck offers most of these (but not speed), > but you have to scroll through a computer menu to do it. My Prius offers > only the speed option, sadly. I wonder about the new version of the > Insight. > > HARRY WYETH > -- ----------------- Ron Stone ---------------------------- on Twitter (at) photonron --------------------------------------------------------- disclaimers or other restrictions may apply to this message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------- Ron Stone ---------------------------- on Twitter (at) photonron --------------------------------------------------------- disclaimers or other restrictions may apply to this message. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
