[ale] [WAY THE HELL OFF TOPIC] -- but accurate

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

so...

If the highest speed limit in the US is 75mph, why do cars have
speedometers that typically go to 120mph. Like my wife's (long gone) Dodge
Omni had a max speed of about 90mph (tested - downhill with a tailwind) but
the speedo topped at 120. My Porsche reads to 165. I have yet to find it's
top end - I need a track for that :-)  (once it's back on the road - old
cars have old parts that are hard to find)

The smart-assed physicist in me thinks 75 is total bogosity. The _REAL_
speed limit is "c" :-)


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> This graf is from an article on trying to be a "hypermiler" in a Honda
> Insight -- in Atlanta:
>
> "The speed thing was especially a problem for us, because we conducted
> this test in Atlanta, where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour ? a
> number we decided to stay close to for efficiency purposes. Unfortunately,
> no one in Atlanta goes 55 miles per hour. Little old ladies don't go 55.
> Church vans don't go 55. Even an illegal immigrant driving a stolen car
> with a trunk full of cocaine and human body parts would be pushing 70.
> And no one would give him a second look."
>
> http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-
> honda-1621059406
>
> Sean
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