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Re: Speedometer accuracy.

To: "Triumphs List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Speedometer accuracy.
From: "Lou Metelko" <lmtr4a@ctlnet.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:00:38 -0500
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:26 AM
Subject: Speedometer accuracy.


> This is a web site that analyses your speedometer accuracy.  For a
> measured mile in Ca. look for a wide, maybe 8', white stripe painted
> perpendiculer an the shoulder pf the road.  These stripes are what the
> CHP aircraft use to time you.


Every Interstate in the nation has little green mile marker signs.  Passing
one every 60 seconds says that you are doing 60MPH.  If I weren't so math
challenged I could tell you that at 70 MPH you should pass a Interstate mile
marker every ___ seconds.  A stop watch is all that you need to verify
speedos.

Lou Metelko
Auburn, Indiana




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