Re: Why can't car speedos be accurate?
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Re: Why can't car speedos be accurate?         

Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: Abo
Date: Sep 15, 2008 08:04

Boltar wrote:
> Since truck, bus and train speedos can be accurate why can't they do
> the same for cars? It can't be hard in these days of electronic
> everything to have some optical revolution counter on an axle so whats
> the problem? I drove past one of these flash you speed up signs the
> other day and while my speedo said 38 the sign said 34 so thats a good
> percentage out. And my tyres and new and inflated to the correct
> pressure so they're not the culprit. So why don't car manufacturers
> bother?

Because it's not required? VW want to sell 8 million cars by 2011. If it
cost them 10p to make a speedo read spot on rather than be inaccurate
but legal then that's ВЈ800k saved just on the speedo...

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