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Article #866Re: Aggressive Driving
From: Michael Zarlenga
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
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DPH (rally2xs@csi.com) wrote: : > >Speeding is based on the officers judgement. the reason that within 10mph : > >of the limit is usually not considered speeding is because at 70 MPH the : > >average non-calibrated speedometer reads 65MPH. Having a speedometer : > >calibrated is actually quite expensive for the manufactures, so they : > >generally only calibrate speedometers for law enforcement purposes. : > : > Even if you calibrate it, tire wear will change it. : Not enough to matter. Maybe 0.3 percent. Can't even see that on an analog : speedo. Tire wear can be as much as 1" on a 15" rim, that translates to a circumference change of 6.6%. You estimate of error was off by more than 20X. -- -- Mike Zarlenga finger zarlenga@conan.ids.net for PGP public key
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public From: zarlenga@conan.ids.net (Michael Zarlenga) Subject: Re: Aggressive Driving Date: 1998/07/13 Message-ID: <6oddlp$cum$3@paperboy.ids.net> X-Deja-AN: 371043180 References: <6n8pi0$cu7@netaxs.com> <359f7d3c.2206389@news.pipeline.com> <35a46bd2.8632813@news.serv.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980708140109.22391I-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> <6o3e82$2s2@urth.autarch.com> <35A5453A.39C11D72@csi.com> Followup-To: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving X-Complaints-To: abuse@ids.net X-Trace: paperboy.ids.net 900348409 13270 (None) 155.212.1.12 Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (401) 884-9002 GUEST [telnet ids.net] Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving