Re: OT: Converting miles/km

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.


 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.