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   Christian Weisgerber to Peter Moylan   
   Re: OT: Converting miles/km   
   01 Mar 25 16:17:54   
   
   XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-03-01, Peter Moylan  wrote:   
      
   > I have never seen an Australian car with a dual mph/km/h display. I   
   > presume that the dual display is confined to countries who started to   
   > transition to metric and never finished the job.   
      
   And where people frequently cross into neighboring countries that   
   use different units.   
      
   > Does any country other than the UK have dual-display speedos?   
      
   IIRC, the US and Canada used to, back in the day of analog instruments.   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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