Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 4/10/2024
Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 4/10/2024
Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
So stupid question - why does my speedo read ~3km faster than a radar thingy on the road?
Is that a safety margin thing or have i got the wrong tires installed (or similar)?
@flambonkscious @Dave The guy who services my car told me many moons ago that some vehicles are set to read slightly higher than they really are - as a safety thing.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯You are absolutely right!
Ooh that's interesting. I have seen this in almost every car I've ever driven past one of those things. There's actually one car that I remember borrowing one time that stands out in my mind as it matched the speed sign thing and that was unusual enough to still remember it years later.
I just assumed that since the speed is read internally (gear box or something?), as the mm if rubber come off the tire the speedo would over read more and more.
Back from overseas, jetlag slowly wearing off and 500 unread emails dealt to yesterday and Thursday. Whee!
Saw some cool art while I was there https://www.instagram.com/p/DASbkEIuf2x/ and made a temporary friend https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wELPgpJR2/