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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 16:17:54 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-01, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> 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