Opps My mistake. I ment ABOVE! The speedo reads a higher speed than you are actually
traveling.

Dr. Rainer Woitok wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, 1998-08-12 02:08:15 -0700, Todd Last wrote:
>
> > If you look in the Bently manual it states (somewhere) that the speedo is
> > purposly set to read about 5% below actual speed in order to meet us DOT laws.
>
> BELOW??   That's interesting.    In   Germany speedos  are  required  to
> _exaggerate_ your speed so nobody controlled by radar could claim it was
> only because of the speedo ...
>
> Sincerely
>  Rainer
>
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