My car's speedometer only goes to 140 MPH. WTF? The car can go much faster than that. The last time I got it up to speed I stopped at 138 MPH seeing as how it would be a waste since I wouldn't actually know how fast I was going. Is this the auto industry's way of passively keeping me from going to "ludicrous speed"?* Why stop there? It could go to 500 MPH. Though then I suppose someone (possibly me) would complain that the speedometer goes to 500 MPH and yet the car does not. There's no pleasing some people.
*My fellow geeks in the audience will get that one.
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This just makes me think of the last roadtrip I took with my dad (who should've been a NASCAR driver).
We had a rented car and he accidentally set the speedometer to MPH instead of kilometres...we were doing 130MPH in a 100km/h zone in Quebec when he noticed. That's, oh, more than twice what he should've been doing.
And Quebec literally enforces their speed limits with police in helicopters.
Yes, I still tease him about it...all the time.
It goes to 11.
Cake: Vroooom!
Lois: HAR!
Bacon: I can't imagine going 138--doesn't the flesh on your face shake or something?
Oddly just about everything over 100 or 110 feels roughly the same. The fastest I've driven before was 155.
Holy Sh*&(#!
He's gone to plaid.
- *geek*
(Star geek)
Seems a lot like the same post from back in June...
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