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From: fritz@phri.UUCP (Dave Fritzinger)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: Re: Speedometer limits
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 15:44:13 EST
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> 
> 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+.
> 
> 
>                           Chris Rosebrugh
>                           GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Mass.
>                           !harvard!bunny!cpr0

A few years back, our gummint in all its wisdom (:-)), decided that all those
big numbers on the speedo made us want to go FAST, to see if we could peg the
thing.  So, they thought that a speedometer with a maximum speed of 85mph would
cause us to slow down-dumb logic, huh?  Anyway, they have since realized the 
error of their ways, saw that 85mph speedometers weren't slowing anyone down, 
and decreed that speedos with higher numbers were ok again.  Now, if only they
would do the same thing with the double nickle...
-- 
Dave Fritzinger, Public Health Research Institute, NY,NY
{allegra!phri!fritz}

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