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Subject:Re: Speedo calibration
From:Victor Montgomery
Date:Mon, 17 Aug 1998 21:45:33 EDT

I cannot believe Todd Last's comment regarding the 5% planned speedometer
error for DOT regs in the US. All police speedometers are required to
"certified" as to accuracy and regular speedometers are engineered to be
accruate at the time of manufacture.
Victor...
Deutsch Amerikanischer Polizei Verband

>On Wed, 1998-08-12 02:08:15 -0700, Todd Last wrote:
>
>> If you look in the Bently manual it states (somewhere) that the speedo
is purposly set to read about 5% below actual speed in order to meet us
DOT laws.<<

BELOW??   That's interesting.    In   Germany speedos  are  required
to_exaggerate_ your speed so nobody controlled by radar could claim it
wasonly because of the speedo ...

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