Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
I hate multiplying everything by 1.62 when i'm doing 310 divided by 1.62
an hour (yep Hockenheim..)
Tom
Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
I hate multiplying everything by 1.62 when i'm doing 310 divided by 1.62
an hour (yep Hockenheim..)
Tom
It's worse than you think because a mile is actually 1.609 km
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Johan N
Let's see which is more accurate a change in 1kmph or 1mph? The big
question is why not rpm's instead...more realistic to see those compared to
mph imo.
Jon
> Minor issue (there are those as well)
> Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
> overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
Huh? If you can't get 350 in Hocke your setup is worth sh... crap.
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> Minor issue (there are those as well)
> Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
> overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
> I hate multiplying everything by 1.62 when i'm doing 310 divided by 1.62
> an hour (yep Hockenheim..)
> Tom
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>> Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
>> overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
>> I hate multiplying everything by 1.62 when i'm doing 310 divided by 1.62
>> an hour (yep Hockenheim..)
>> Tom
>It's worse than you think because a mile is actually 1.609 km
For example, when bragging about a cars acceleration people always say
how fast a car goes from 0 to 60 "mph", never do you hear them mention
kilometres. Same goes for top speeds, when you say a car is going
200mph it's easier to picture than saying it's going 320kph (or
whatever it translates to) kilometres just don't sound right in
racing.
>>> Minor issue (there are those as well)
>>> Where is the option to change to Km's stead of miles. I may have
>>> overlooked it, I may not, I don't know.
>>> I hate multiplying everything by 1.62 when i'm doing 310 divided by 1.62
>>> an hour (yep Hockenheim..)
>>> Tom
>>It's worse than you think because a mile is actually 1.609 km
>Why not just leave it as miles to begin with? measuring speed by
>kilometres is wimpy, it may be the more modern way, but miles is more
>macho, at least in racing anyway.
>For example, when bragging about a cars acceleration people always say
>how fast a car goes from 0 to 60 "mph", never do you hear them mention
>kilometres. Same goes for top speeds, when you say a car is going
>200mph it's easier to picture than saying it's going 320kph (or
>whatever it translates to) kilometres just don't sound right in
>racing.
you can find it in the workshop,utilities,menu setup......
And your country was...?
I don't dispute you feel miles are "better". If you feel they're right,
you feel like it and that's it. But for most Europeans, klicks aren't a
"new" unit of measurement. Would you believe even Finnish military
aviation uses metres despite the international aviation language being
English?
-lark-
Not were I come from :) and so goes for most of Europe (sorry UK, but
it's time to change).
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>> Why not just leave it as miles to begin with? measuring speed by
>> kilometres is wimpy, it may be the more modern way, but miles is more
>> macho, at least in racing anyway.
>> For example, when bragging about a cars acceleration people always say
>> how fast a car goes from 0 to 60 "mph", never do you hear them mention
>> kilometres. Same goes for top speeds, when you say a car is going
>> 200mph it's easier to picture than saying it's going 320kph (or
>> whatever it translates to) kilometres just don't sound right in
>> racing.
> Not were I come from :) and so goes for most of Europe (sorry UK, but
> it's time to change).
Dennis.
(Grin) It's certainly time that the UK got in line with the rest of
Europe on this one though. I remember being stuck behind some poor
dutch guy driving on an English country lane and seeing a big sign
saying 30 he maintained a constant 30 kph for the next few miles. God
did that seem slow.
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Even Canada uses KMPH. What I don't get is why would the UK have
everything else in metric except road signs? You are officially
metric, right?
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:> (Grin) It's certainly time that the UK got in line with the rest of
:>Europe on this one though. I remember being stuck behind some poor
:>dutch guy driving on an English country lane and seeing a big sign
:>saying 30 he maintained a constant 30 kph for the next few miles. God
:>did that seem slow.
: Even Canada uses KMPH. What I don't get is why would the UK have
: everything else in metric except road signs? You are officially
: metric, right?
Since1830- just 170 years isn't long enough for some people to make
the change :-).
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Networks and Non-Linear Dynamics Group
Dept. of Mathematics, Uni. of York
UPDATED WWW: http://manor.york.ac.uk/
>>> Why not just leave it as miles to begin with? measuring speed by
>>> kilometres is wimpy, it may be the more modern way, but miles is more
>>> macho, at least in racing anyway.
>>> For example, when bragging about a cars acceleration people always say
>>> how fast a car goes from 0 to 60 "mph", never do you hear them mention
>>> kilometres. Same goes for top speeds, when you say a car is going
>>> 200mph it's easier to picture than saying it's going 320kph (or
>>> whatever it translates to) kilometres just don't sound right in
>>> racing.
>> Not were I come from :) and so goes for most of Europe (sorry UK, but
>> it's time to change).
>Right, and saying you went 320 KM/h is a lot more impressive than
>saying you went 200 Mph, eventhough it's equally fast :)
I'm from Canada and we've had the metric system here for 20 odd years,
however i still use mph when talking about speed, it just sounds
better, mph is still used far more when talking about speed and
racing, maybe those who think not are all just under 30 years of age.