OK, now it’s cold. I had been worrying that it was unseasonably warm, but last night it finally went cold. This morning I got up, the path outside was icey and I had to scrape, and then sit in my car for ten minutes while it warmed up and defrosted. I’m sure I could probably do something productive while I wait for a small gap (how big a gap do you really need anyway?) in the windscreen to defrost, but I tend to just sit there staring at the dashboard. I like how my Honda dashboard has italic lettering, it makes you think you’re going faster than you really are.
OK Mr Car, I’ll Just Sit Here
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November 17th, 2005 |
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Common misconception in the States is that Europeans all use the kilometer system, including the British. Yet I notice that your speedometer is in mph. There is a stretch of highway in California where a lot of I think either Swedish or some other group of Scandinavian people live so the highway “this many miles to this place” signs are both in miles and in km. Anyways, my point is that we don’t learn anything (or the right things) in school in the States.
Your dashboard looks really simple and clean. I think maybe because mine has more gradation lines between the mph miles so you know if you’re going 73 vs 78. What’s that ((!)) light? My odometer is one of those old “you can put your car in reverse like in Ferris Bueller’s day off and the miles will go down” crank number things.
Comment by From aross the Atlantic — November 18, 2005 @ 2:01 pmI think we’re the only European country still using imperial measurements on the road. I’m not sure why they didn’t make them metric, maybe they thought it would be too dangerous? We still order pints in bar/pubs too, but pretty much everything else is metric I think.
The ((!)) light means the handbrake is on, I think. Though I guess it would have been better to make a symbol that looked like a handbrake. I wonder if those digital odometers are any more secure? You can probably just connect a laptop up with the right software and set it to any value you want. Under the steering wheel is a connector that looks like a computer should be plugged in to if you had the right cable.
Comment by Darren — November 18, 2005 @ 2:25 pm