Because unless you were going very fast, the speedometer would never go past 1.
If you made the speedometer so that it was on a scale of 0.00 to 1.00 then it just becomes odd to read.
When people drive, they should be driving for 15 minutes and greater. No one gets into a car and drives for a few seconds and checks how many miles they've done so far.
Put simply, speedometers aren't marked in miles per second because it wouldn't be useful or functional.
Perhaps when the human race starts building space ships capable of intense speeds, they will adopt a miles per second speedometer, but there are better alternatives.
Because it means miles per hour
It's not officially a recall. GM extended the warranty on the speedometer to 7 years 70,000 miles. I just called to have mine fixed.
there was a service bulletin issued, you can find out information by calling your local cadillac dealer. FYI it is only valid up to 75k miles
They record in kilometers, yet distances on British road signs are prominently displayed in miles and car's speedometers read in miles per hour with km/h in small display just like the U.S.! As ironic as that sounds, it's a fact.
No. 30 miles per second is greater.
To convert from miles per hour to miles per second, use this formula:mph x 0.0002778 = miles per second
meters per second x 0.000621371192 = miles per second:0.9 x 0.000621371192 = 0.0005592340728 miles per second.
1 light-second = 186,282 miles
-66.667 miles per second squared
A gain of 2 miles per second squared
I can only work that out if they wore speedometers. Sorry.
1,501.9 miles per second = 2,417,073.75 meters per second.