On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Timpe, Jim wrote:
Those computers are doing instantaneous calculations, and may very
well be
accurate at a particular point in time. I remember watching such
devices
tell me I'm getting 70mpg while coasting down a long incline. Watch
the
same computer when you get on it pulling away from rest... 1 or 2mpg.
I saw one of those in a BMW. It was just a vacuum gauge with a mph
readout instead of psi. Hardly a computer.
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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