Yes! My Accord’s speedo ‘tops out’ at 140 mph so in-town driving speeds are squished into the first 1/8 of the needle’s sweep and 80mph is at the middle. I have no idea if the car will actually reach that speed and have no intention whatsoever experimenting to se if it can.
My 1994 Suburban OTOH has a maximum of 90mph on its speedometer and it easily reaches 80. At the top of the dial is 45mph.
Standard-parts-bin speedometer dial (or standard-template-formatted virtual screen speedometer “dial”). For which you want a wide margin. And at least in the case of Hondas, they tend to be popular among “tuners” who will juice them up.
Also, I think, back in the 70’s when the speed limit was 55. Speedo’s only went up to 85 on some cars. I think that sort of pissed some people off.
But considering some of the ‘box stock’ stuff that came out of the late 70’s and early 80’s that was probably the top end anyway.
Wasn’t there a regulation in the late 1970s - early 1980s that mandated that they only go up to 85? I remember reading blog posts about how the Mustang SVO got around that by having the numbers stop at 85, but the speedo had red hash marks that went beyond that.
I missed the edit window, but yeah, speedos that went beyond 85 were illegal during that period. The Jalopnik article even quotes the text of the law.
The whole idea was to make the new 55mph limit seem plenty fast enough, not just barely 1/4th of the way up the meter. So sort of Idiocracy in reverse.
And yes, the “don’t tread on me” crowd went absolutely apeshit when that law came out. They didn’t have an internet (nor Fox News) to share and amplify their outrage but it was real.
They had Sammy, which is enough.
This isn’t really a stupid design but I just don’t get why it’s used. Why are athletic socks sold in ziploc-type bags? Do they want us to store our socks in the bag after purchase? To me it’s just unnecessary and I would think more expensive. There are other items that I’ve noticed come unnecessarily in those kind of bags, I just can’t remember any of them.
Sometimes people want to feel the fabric on socks before purchasing them, so the ziploc-type bag allows for that.
'Zactly.
The public will tear open the bag to feel the merch, then nobody will buy the torn-open bag because cooties. The ziplock lets everybody, but especially the merchant, get what they want.
My opinion of a torn-open bag won’t be changed by the fact that it’s been re-sealed. And you can get the same effect by putting a small circular hole in the bag.
True on both. But if it is a ziplock bag, presumably most of the feelers will have opened the bag that way. Which can be closed up leaving no evidence, whether the feeler or a store clerk does the closing.
Sure, some fraction of feelers will stupidly tear the bag anyhow. Ziplocks are harm reduction from the merchant POV, not a damage-proof shield.
I just came inside from experiencing two stupid product designs.
The wife’s car, a 2019 Highlander, just indicated that one of the tires had low pressure. It did not say which tire (unlike my 2017 Ford Edge).
Then, when I was checking the pressure in each tire, nowhere could I find the recommended PSI for said tire. I’m sure it was imprinted somewhere on the tire in a small hard-to-read font, but I couldn’t find it. I certainly could read the manufacturer of the tire, the style, and even the size, but the PSI was not obvious.
I’ve always found that information on the driver’s door edge.
Huh. Good to know. When she returns this evening, I’ll check it out. Thanks.
On these bags, above the level of the zipper, the bag is permanently sealed. The zipper only becomes accessible at all after the permanent seal is torn open.
As I understand, and cites like this agree, you should go by the PSI on the door jamb, not on the tire itself.
Ahh. We’re talking about two different packaging methods. Agree completely with your thoughts about the heat sealed bags that also have a ziplock for reusability.
I mostly see those in the context of food, not clothing.
Except my old VW, the information was on a sticker inside the fuel door. Every single time for 17 years that I had to put air in the tires, I’d stand on my head to read the sticker on the car door, not find the tire information, then remember it was on the fuel door.
People need to feel socks that are sold by the dozen?