gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (12/27/85)
mikey writes: > The law went off the books about 1981 (I think!) but it's taken till now > for the fast speedos to show up on cars again. The '85 corvette > had a +85 speedo. The analog speedo only goes to 85, but the digital one keeps following my foot all the way to the floor...
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) (12/30/85)
> mikey writes: > > The law went off the books about 1981 (I think!) but it's taken till now > > for the fast speedos to show up on cars again. The '85 corvette > > had a +85 speedo. > The analog speedo only goes to 85, but the digital one keeps following > my foot all the way to the floor... > Gee, that's a strange design... I'd prefer that the speedometer stay put when I accelerate, rather than dropping to the floor... -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA The Pentagon's Polygraphs: Witchcraft for witchhunts.
eli@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) (12/31/85)
In article <1069@homxb.UUCP> gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >mikey writes: >> The law went off the books about 1981 (I think!) but it's taken till now >> for the fast speedos to show up on cars again. The '85 corvette >> had a +85 speedo. >The analog speedo only goes to 85, but the digital one keeps following >my foot all the way to the floor... Interestingly enough, a couple of friends and I rented a 1985 Thunderbird (with a non-turboed V6) for a trip. This car had a digital speedo with two modes, mph and kph. The mph scale refused to go beyond 85 mph, but after some experimentation, we determined that the other scale went up to at least 198 kph. -eli -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eli Liang --- University of Maryland Computer Vision Lab, (301) 454-4526 ARPA: eli@cvl, eli@lemuria, eli@mit-mc, eli@mit-prep CSNET: eli@cvl UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!cvl!eli
gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (01/04/86)
John Woods writes: > > mikey writes: > > > The law went off the books about 1981 (I think!) but it's taken till now > > > for the fast speedos to show up on cars again. The '85 corvette > > > had a +85 speedo. > > The analog speedo only goes to 85, but the digital one keeps following > > my foot all the way to the floor... > > > Gee, that's a strange design... I'd prefer that the speedometer stay put > when I accelerate, rather than dropping to the floor... Well, it could have been designed to 'go through the roof' at high speeds, but that would have obscured vision, especially in the rain :-)