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• SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Squinting your eyes on the smaller numbers on the speedometer. I do it all the time!

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  • coronach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Be careful, you might get pulled over for doing kph instead of mph in the US.

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    • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No imperialist (system) is going to stop me!

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you’re saying your car is able to use mph when in the US? Fancy car!

    Btw, I was trying to make a joke about mph being some different kind of “fuel” that’s not compatible with kph, in case that wasn’t clear.

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• paequ2@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Every car I’ve owned has had a way to change the speedometer from freedom units to ✨ metric ✨ .

  For knowing what speed I should be going, I roughly follow these numbers. (Note, these are not equivalent.)

  • 35mph -> 50km/h
  • 60mph -> 100km/h
  • 70mph ->110km/h

  Also, very roughly 10km ≈ 5mi.

  However, most of the time I just follow the flow of traffic.

  I voluntarily switched to metric like 10 years ago, so meters, celsius, grams, etc make more sense to me now.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You missed the joke.

    I was making a joke as if kph and mph were physically distinct things and only one of them worked in each country.

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