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> you DO NOT need a speedometer or any dash display at all to safely pull a car to the side of the road and stop. You do if there isn't a good place to stop an
by nmeagent 4y ago
> you DO NOT need a speedometer or any dash display at all to safely pull a car to the side of the road and stop.
You do if there isn't a good place to stop and you need (or would rather) keep driving for awhile first, say in the middle of an obnoxious construction zone with no shoulder, or on a mountain pass with no shoulder, or in a sketchy area in the middle of the night (summoning a tow truck can literally take hours depending on where you are), etc.
- b112 4y agoYes but by that logic, we should mandate dual tires on all rims, just becuase we can. You're perfectly find driving without a speedometer, till out of the construction zone. I had a car with a busted one for a decade, and you know what I did? I drove with the flow of traffic. Really, a dash display is not a safety feature.
- phpisthebest 4y agoThen you can slow to a reasonable safe speed and proceed on visual cues alone Still do not need a speedometer, you should be able to judge you speed with in 5-10mph by visual alone, if you can not you probably should not be driving in the first place.