Re: OT: Converting miles/km

On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:11:31 +0200, Silvano
<Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:

Aidan Kehoe hat am 21.09.2024 um 17:10 geschrieben:

 > On 21/09/2024 12:52, Silvano wrote:
 > > Japan was already wiser 40 years ago, but the more appropriate name is
 > > probably "speed limit warnings".
 > > A friend gave me a ride there when an alarm sound went off.
 > > - What does this noise mean?
 > > - I was driving at over 100 km/h (the speed limit on their highways at
 > > that time). We have a warning system on all our cars.
 > > - What about all those cars overtaking us? Do they produce the same noise?
 > > - Yes.
 >
 > This sound warning is optional on my car (i.e. can be disabled). The
 > visual warning (on the GPS display) however, is not.

>
From what I saw at that time, Japan was ridiculously underdeveloped on
some items (washing machines, squat toilets - well, they moved on in
these 40 years and we should learn a lot from them about modern toilets,
see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan>), but it was much
better than Continental Europe on other items (bullet trains, fax etc.).
But even they did not have GPS displays 40 years ago.
>

I found that article on toilets in Japan to be interesting.  I once
read a whole book about bathrooms, so it could be that I am easily
amused.

I learned that I can take one away ('toilets') from the set of things
never yet connected to the internet.

>
As soon as you go

 > over the speed limit, the colour of the limit indicator changes (to
 > red). The absence of a sound warning is a blessing, rather than a
 > handicap.

>
I agree, but you can't have a visual warning on the GPS display before
the invention of GPS displays. No idea about the present situation over
there.

--
Rich Ulrich