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yurimow31 t1_j1e9fg5 wrote

seems fair. indicated airspeed isn't really useful for a car.

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PinkPickledOnion t1_j1e9qsy wrote

This is the “aviator watch” cosplay trickling into cars. Not shocked it’s on a mustang

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Penske1 t1_j1eay7m wrote

The Mustang was named after the P-51 Mustang fighter plane so this is a reference to that plane and aviation.

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Juan-More-Taco t1_j1ednf8 wrote

Makes sense given that Mustang is named after a plane obviously. Haven't they been doing this for awhile?

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Irvingdls t1_j1ej6po wrote

Been like that for a while thought it was mildly interesting too

The fact you can change the dash and ambient color is my favorite part. That’s more interesting.

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JackieMcFucknuckles t1_j1emxsz wrote

Replying to egordoniv (#1,025,971)

GPS speed and Ground Speed don’t always match. That would be really the only other option, but it’s negligible.

Example: a car traveling over mountainous terrain will have a higher ground speed than gps speed since the gps speed is only accounting for position and not elevation. Traveling up a mountain and back down the other side is a longer ground distance (sum of 2 sides of a triangle is always longer than the length of the 3rd side) than the straight line distance if there were, say, a tunnel through the mountain.

It’s really not useful data though because it’s usually a negligible difference.

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OldTimeyMedicine t1_j1ep6j9 wrote

I think it's Car Speed, it only seems like the ground is moving but it's actually the car

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PinkPickledOnion t1_j1evo8l wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,027,695)

No I just think it’s stupid and made for a market of wannabes. People can drive what they want as long as they are insured and the car is road legal imho. But I can still judge their purchases in the same way I judge people who buy Louis Vitton.

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hearnia_2k t1_j1evs25 wrote

Replying to JackieMcFucknuckles (#1,027,002)

But calling it ground speed is not exactly right either.... GPS speed in a straight line should be pretty accurate. Most systems use more accurate positioning satellites than GPS in addition, and they all offer altitude so that can easily be factored in.

Ground speed could be off if the car is drifting for example, since the wheels will be rotating at different speeds.

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hearnia_2k t1_j1ewg7i wrote

Replying to OldTimeyMedicine (#1,027,227)

Wouldn't it be both? Equal and opposite forces blah blah means if a car drives in one driection then it applies the same force on the ground in opposite direction. So, the ground speed is the different between the speed of the ground in one direction and the car in another direction.

Otherwise the car would have to do some pretty unnecessary calculations to know how much force the car was putting on the earth in the opposite direction, and how much that impacted the speed of the earths rotation etc. Plus the speedo would likely have to show pretty close to 1.3 million MPH?

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IAmTheClayman t1_j1exujm wrote

If it changes to read Air Speed it means you’ve accidentally driven off a cliff

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berkeley_solipsist t1_j1ez03x wrote

In all honesty, I thought it was a subtle joke about how fast the car can go.

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OldTimeyMedicine t1_j1ezp6r wrote

Replying to hearnia_2k (#1,027,920)

Setting aside speedos for a moment, the Car Speed would be relative to the frame of reference, or more appropriately, the rate at which the wheels are turning since the speedometer is measuring that based on the wheel rotation. So if the car is drifting, the speedometer will present the speed according to wheel speed rather than the resolved components of the speed vectors, where the datum isn't defined here.

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Schroedinbug t1_j1f1tjp wrote

Replying to OldTimeyMedicine (#1,027,227)

More like wheel speed. Not ground speed due to things like drifting or dyno, not air speed due to wind, not car speed as you can lock the brakes up and it'll show zero while sliding into the sunset at speed. GPS speed would be closer to "car speed", but there are still issues with z-axis movement.

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simonf75 t1_j1fb4sf wrote

the fact that it doesn’t match the curvature of the numbers is fucking killing me

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hearnia_2k t1_j1ffmaf wrote

Replying to OldTimeyMedicine (#1,028,229)

Yes, it's true, and I even mentioned this in another comment, but it's also not what you previously states, where you said it's the speed the car is actually moving; but it's not, it's based on having a value for the outer circumference of the tyre, and speed of rotation etc.

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Savitar-1 t1_j1fmwu0 wrote

Probably going a lot faster in the air. Terminal velocity is no joke.

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doosher2000k t1_j1fz5dr wrote

This would be cool in like a Veyron - in a mustang it just screams small dick energy

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wombey12 t1_j1g1tbx wrote

Replying to PinkPickledOnion (#1,028,456)

"Success" my ass. He blocked you because he was fed up with your obnoxious shit, just like anyone else would be. And the downvotes on all your comments/upvotes on theirs prove who everyone else is siding with.

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Elikorm t1_j1g3rfx wrote

Replying to Penske1 (#1,025,723)

Me and my family have an ongoing argumejt about this lol

I claim as you do but they say why is there a hose on the logo and what’s the plane named after

I’m taking solace that I’m not the only one who says this

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PinkPickledOnion t1_j1g47vn wrote

Replying to wombey12 (#1,032,153)

Found the other account 😂

People get so offended on jokes about the stuff they buy because they identify with items. It’s late stage capitalism in a nutshell.

And last time I checked my first comment still has upvotes so they sided with me. Thanks for pointing that out.

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A_Tad_Bit_Nefarious t1_j1g5vgl wrote

Replying to Full_Temperature_920 (#1,027,213)

If you use navigation apps like Waze, Google Maps, or a dedicated unit like a Garmin, they typically have an option to tell you your speed. Sometimes they tell you the speed limit of the road you are on too so you can easily tell by how many mph you are breaking the law lol.

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NemosGhost t1_j1g6ydm wrote

Replying to JackieMcFucknuckles (#1,027,002)

GPS measures position and therefore speed three dimensionally as long as it has at least 4 satellites or combination of references.

It's just a matter of what you want displayed. Modern units can do SOG or 3 dimensional speed.

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NemosGhost t1_j1g8g9s wrote

Replying to Full_Temperature_920 (#1,027,213)

It is and it isn't.

GPS can measure speed/velocity and display it different references or units. It's a tool to measure, not the unit or datum itself.

Saying GPS speed is kinda like saying ruler length.

We do often say it out of habit though to compare it to air speed or boat speed which are the speed of the vessel moving through air or water that is also moving.

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kadinshino t1_j1g9w2k wrote

Instant this throwback to the P-51 Mustangs because they took design elements from it or something?

Introduced in the Mach 1 in the 1960s

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VJimbobjohnsonRising t1_j1gck55 wrote

This is in homage to the flight cockpit it is designed to mimic. Its the same reason that there are flip up toggle switches below the touch screen.

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SportsterDriver t1_j1gu3gz wrote

There should be a switch to airspeed somewhere, used when leaving shows

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PhasmaFelis t1_j1gu6iq wrote

Replying to JackieMcFucknuckles (#1,027,002)

You're not wrong, but this amuses me because, in aircraft, "ground speed" means what you're calling GPS speed. Basically just the horizontal component of your speed. An aircraft in a vertical dive has a ground speed of zero even if it's close to breaking the sound barrier.

(For extra confusion, "air speed" is your speed relative to the air around you, and that air may also be moving. If you're in level flight, heading due north into a 50MPH wind blowing due south, you might have a 300MPH airspeed but only 250MPH ground speed.)

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Ptakub2 t1_j1gva5v wrote

Why the hell would anybody grind it?

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El_Boberto t1_j1gwkxm wrote

Replying to tfctroll (#1,031,563)

100% made up. They went all out when they announced the Camaro. They sent out cryptic invites to automotive journalists for the reveal and made up a fake organization for the eradication of panthers, it’s code name during development, and invited them to join. The press conference was the first and last meeting of said organization.

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iwillneverreadthiscr t1_j1h15wn wrote

The lettering is all crooked -it is only loosely following the curvature of the speedometer; it looks like someone with poor photoshop skills added that...

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jasonreid1976 t1_j1hdun1 wrote

Makes sense. It couldn't be the Airspeed Velocity of a Dew Laden Swallow.

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Agreeable-Scholar483 t1_j1hmcvy wrote

That’s in place of the one that gives you your speed as your drifting into a curb, three parked cars and a fence. It is a Mustang after all.

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a_useless_farmer t1_j1i1fer wrote

Can’t be sure, but maybe it’s a joke on the car’s inspiration from the p-51 mustang?

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Flawdahwatah t1_j1i471i wrote

It’s just a stupid way to help sell the car.. it’s a way of fooling chuds into thinking they have some upgraded sensors or whatever funny business they come up with to justify paying way too much to drive to the grocery store

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ButWhatIfIAmARobot t1_j1ik3pu wrote

If you are burning out does it stay at 0mph? If it's sensed from the front wheels only then it's more of a relative speed to the crowd you are about to hit. RCS. Relative Crowd Speed?

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