Odds are that you would have a hard time finding "mile" markers in BC, but I
have seen them in AZ, CA, NV, & NM.  Haven't done enough driving in the east
to tell you otherwise, but I'd suspect they're around.  So far as the
inaccuracy of the highway dept. road signs, you can take a few of them and
average them out.

Karl

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion

> At 16:25 5/10/2000, Tobin Copley wrote:
> >Find an "odometer test section" (these are the sections on the
> >interstates with the small black signs marking miles off 0, 1, 2,
> >3... usually for 5 or more miles), and time from there.  The sweep
>
> I think we'll have to go to BC for that.  Most I've ever seen in US is a
> single measured mile with no warning ahead of time.
>
> OTOH, some places (New York and New Jersey for example) put a small
> numbered marker *every tenth* of a mile on the interstates -- pretty easy
> to spot a flier with that much data.  Rhode Island has no mile markers
that
> I know of -- Massachusetts has them in theory but they don't replace them
> when they go missing.
>
> david
>
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
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