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Re: Bike speedometers in the roadster

To: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu>, <mitch@ias.net>
Subject: Re: Bike speedometers in the roadster
From: Marc Tyler <mtyler@hctc.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:19:05 -0500
>BUT..there is no way GPS is going to be as accurate
>as my bike comp in sensing things like speed, trip distance and total 
>distance.
>My comp is accurate to.1 MPH can GPS do that??
No, but it can target a missile to within 30 feet ;-)

Seems like a GPS is not going to give you an istantaneous reading of 
current speed as much as an average speed over a given increment of time. 
 I wonder if the distance part of the speed is calculated as the crow 
flies...........


Marc T.

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