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jnmjnmjnm t1_jd3nh1s wrote

I know a guy who picked up a rental car in Calgary and headed out on the highway to Edmonton. He got pulled over. The previous renter had the digital speedo set to MPH. He got off with a warning.

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zedemer t1_jd4cz6i wrote

That's somewhat more understandable, albeit barely.

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ErikTheAngry t1_jd4n63s wrote

Hwy 2 is an incredibly busy highway and he would have been driving somewhere around 50kph over the posted speed.

There is no way he didn't know something wasn't right.

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thebraddestbrad t1_jd549e8 wrote

He didn't think 177 km/h felt a little fast?

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anengineerandacat t1_jd6chp6 wrote

It really depends... in my lil sports-car, 100% but in the SUV it's weird... almost like you are moving slower but somehow going faster.

I could go 120-130 mph in the wife's SUV and it would honestly feel like I was going 100-110 in my car.

Depends on what they were driving and how smooth it handled said speeds along with just how congested the highway was.

Largely empty highway? Don't think I would know if I was going 100-110 unless I was paying attention to the gauges (which when cruising... sorta isn't something I do).

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seneeb t1_jd6mwc6 wrote

It's height above the road. 70mph in my semi truck feels slow as molasses in winter

In my Hyundai, not only do feel like I'm wiping my butt on the pavement but 70 feels like I'm flying

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jnmjnmjnm t1_jd6k1ck wrote

Exactly. It is also an unfamiliar car, on a not-very busy highway.

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Tje199 t1_jd8prm1 wrote

Did you just say that the QEII, Alberta's primary corridor between its two major cities, is a not very busy highway?

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jnmjnmjnm t1_jd8uat6 wrote

This was several years ago… and apparently late at night.

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zgr024 t1_jd6g956 wrote

125 mph in an Audi RSQ8 feels like 75 mph in a Ford Explosion. The difference is astonishing. I would not put it past someone to not know how fast they are going based on pure judgment, especially if they were in a German automobile

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BrunoBraunbart t1_jd6xrjb wrote

I am an engineer at Audi. I've developed the R8, Lamborghini Huracan, Q7, Porsche Cayenne, Lamborghini Usus, Bentley Bentayga and so on.

Yes, those cars feel different but you still realize your speed. You feel at 200km/h as safe as if you are driving 120km/h in a shitty car. But you still understand that you are not going 120km/h.

I once drove a prototype with a setting to MPH. It took me under 5 seconds to realize that. The same was true for a colleague who didn't drive prototypes on a regular basis.

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zgr024 t1_jd8mmte wrote

I beg to differ. I just had a passenger today that had never been in an RSQ8. I was traveling at 98mph on a highway, and he looked over and said he thought we were doing 70. Granted I've always had my dash in mph so I can't testify to the notion that it makes any difference, but if you aren't looking, you would never know.

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Shot-Spray5935 t1_jd4tmdz wrote

They probably pulled him cuz he was going too slow. The only time you'll see people driving at the speed limit on the QE2 highway is in the middle of a blizzard with near zero visibility and a foot of fresh snow.

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RealLongwayround t1_jd542ol wrote

Why would he be going too slow? If the signed speed is 50 km/h and a chap drives at 50 mph then that chap is driving at 30 km/h over the speed limit.

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