<div dir="ltr"><div><div>so...<br><br></div>If the highest speed limit in the US is 75mph, why do cars have speedometers that typically go to 120mph. Like my wife's (long gone) Dodge Omni had a max speed of about 90mph (tested - downhill with a tailwind) but the speedo topped at 120. My Porsche reads to 165. I have yet to find it's top end - I need a track for that :-) (once it's back on the road - old cars have old parts that are hard to find)<br>
<br></div>The smart-assed physicist in me thinks 75 is total bogosity. The _REAL_ speed limit is "c" :-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This graf is from an article on trying to be a "hypermiler" in a Honda<br>
Insight -- in Atlanta:<br>
<br>
"The speed thing was especially a problem for us, because we conducted<br>
this test in Atlanta, where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour – a<br>
number we decided to stay close to for efficiency purposes. Unfortunately,<br>
no one in Atlanta goes 55 miles per hour. Little old ladies don't go 55.<br>
Church vans don't go 55. Even an illegal immigrant driving a stolen car<br>
with a trunk full of cocaine and human body parts would be pushing 70.<br>
And no one would give him a second look."<br>
<br>
<a href="http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-
honda-1621059406" target="_blank">http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-<br>
honda-1621059406</a><br>
<br>
Sean<br>
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