Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eneevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!amd!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto.tech Subject: Re: Speedometer limits Message-ID: <458@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Dec-85 21:17:35 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.458 Posted: Tue Dec 17 21:17:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 01:49:31 EST References: <1400@cornell.UUCP> <-74821361@techsup> <272@bunny.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 30 Summary: good question. In article <272@bunny.UUCP> cpr0@bunny.UUCP (C. Rosebrugh) writes: >In a most interesting article, "mikey at bbimg" (trsvax!techsup!bbimg!mikey) >noted: >> pss. All the new 86 Chryslers have a 125MPH speedo in their brochures >> except the OMNI/Charger series! For those, they are available at extra >> cost. 55, an idea whose time has passed. > >Seriously, though, what's the regulation behind the maximum numbers on a >speedometer? How come the majority of them went to 85MPH some years back? >Why the change back to big numbers AND, if there is some "law" limiting >the largest number on the dashboard, does it apply to foreign cars >also - my 325e's speedo goes to 140+. > Maybe we should compile the high numbers. The Mercedes 500 SEL speedo goes to (an optimistic) 160. >Also, if a rip the stopper pin out of a speedometer (the pin the needle hits >at max mph), is the needle movement still "linear" (given that the actual >motion is circular)? > Chris Rosebrugh More importantly, if I achieve velocies high enough to bang the needle on one of the knobs (trip odometer?) in its way, will it become uncalibrated? -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu CF522@UMDD.BITNET And then there were none.