Date:         Wed, 10 May 2000 18:27:04 -0400
Reply-To:     Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject:      Mile markers: Speedo Accuracy Discussion
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>

NC has accurate mile markers on I40, I95, and many major NC highways. They
are they're there to assist highway crews and the NCHP. Our exits are also
numbered, exit 189 is 189 miles from the border, or where the highway
begins.

"Roger that...another huge SUV rolled over at mile marker 243...same as
yesterday, 10-4"

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-----Original Message-----
From:   David Beierl [SMTP:dbeierl@IBM.NET]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:02 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion

At 16:25 5/10/2000, Tobin Copley wrote:
>Find an "odometer test section" (these are the sections on the
>interstates with the small black signs marking miles off 0, 1, 2,
>3... usually for 5 or more miles), and time from there.  The sweep

I think we'll have to go to BC for that.  Most I've ever seen in US is a
single measured mile with no warning ahead of time.

OTOH, some places (New York and New Jersey for example) put a small
numbered marker *every tenth* of a mile on the interstates -- pretty easy
to spot a flier with that much data.  Rhode Island has no mile markers that
I know of -- Massachusetts has them in theory but they don't replace them
when they go missing.

david

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