Trip Meter Accuracy - Impressed
Sun, 01/14/2007 - 4:34pm
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 17 years
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I went to Pensacola, FL from Atlanta and I cleared out the trip meter in the GPS and the trip meter in my truck and I was surprised on the accuracy of the trip meter of the GPS verses the vehicle. Over the 400 mile journey there was a 1 mile difference between the GPS & truck trip meter.
WHat is funny
What is funny is that the truck meter is prob the one off. ...JK that is cool i will have to try that. The mph gauge seems to work better than the car though. Some cars read mph wrong and are off 1 mph per 20 to 30 mph. That is cool to know. Thanks.
Motorcycle speedometers are
Motorcycle speedometers are generally about 10% optimistic.
US-only CoPilot + android Optimus T = cheap, effective nav http://www.mousetrap.net/mouse/gps/
Yup my Honda says 55 when
Yup my Honda says 55 when I'm going 50..
Ray
Garmin Streetpilot i3, Streetpilot C580 and Nuvi 265WT
MY BMW HAS SIMILAR PROBLEM
The speedometer in my BMW (1 yr old) reads 9% higher than the Garmin C530, and the odometer reads about 3% higher. I'm trying to figure out which one is likely to be the more accurate (I'm betting on the Garmin, but not certain), as I am leasing the Beemer, and, of course, the cost at the end is based on mileage over a certain limit.
Mike Brown