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California Driver's Ed hammered this in. In california you can get a ticket for going the speed limit if it's foggy, raining, etc. I can't imagine getting pulle
by genewitch 4y ago
California Driver's Ed hammered this in. In california you can get a ticket for going the speed limit if it's foggy, raining, etc. I can't imagine getting pulled over for doing the speed limit anywhere else. I think most of the rest of the country (that i've experienced) has a belief that 90% of people go slower than the speed limit, and the rest are split between people that go the exact posted amount, and people that drive over the speed limit.
I've probably put about 800,000 miles on the road in my life, and i gotta say, "exact posted" is fairly rare, but most people are within 1% or so. you really only notice if you're in a factory stock car with stock tires and have GPS telling you your exact speed. Otherwise it feels like everyone is going faster or slower arbitrarily, when it's probably just mechanical. I think i have read more than a thousand times that manufacturers allow for slop in the speedometers, so long as it shows you going faster than your actual ground speed. up to 10% even.
it's 2022, 2023 almost. Why isn't the speedometer at least half GPS or otherwise corrected? BTW, the way to determine if your speedometer is correct is with the mile marker signs. you set your cruise control or foot to 60MPH and start timer/look at a watch/clock and you should hit the next mile marker at exactly 60 seconds. From what i've read, most cars will hit that up to 6 seconds later than they should.
interesting aside: toyota and ford cars from the late 80s early 90s with digital displays would cap out at like 85MPH but if you switched to KM/H it would allow readings above 85MPH. then again, my first ford was missing the little peg that stopped the analog dial from going past 85, and at one point i was pulled over at 3 AM on I-210 going "R" miles per hour. The Statie told me he was on an interchange, and didn't believe his eyes, because that ford was basically iron oxide and epoxy.