I beg to differ. I just had a passenger today that had never been in an RSQ8. I was traveling at 98mph on a highway, and he looked over and said he thought we were doing 70. Granted I've always had my dash in mph so I can't testify to the notion that it makes any difference, but if you aren't looking, you would never know.

Doesn't mean you know what a kilometer is. China posts street and subway signs in both Chinese and English.

Touche

And now you know why. They think the speed limit is posted in km/h.

It's basically the same as your Raser laws, just a different name and different penalties. But the concept is the same in terms of harsher penalties for being 50km/h over the limit.

The nomenclature of "stunt driving" (performing dangerous, irregular maneouvres for the fun of it) or "street racing" (racing dangerously on public streets with regular traffic present and ignoring limits, signs, and signals) laws is because these were the motivations given for enacting these limits in the first place. That rhetoric caught on and became how people refer to these limits in everyday conversation regardless of whether the limits actually do anything to combat these activities.

Most cars nowadays have both Kph and mph on the speedometer, and the digital displays show the same

So he can drive after all.

Spoke to the owners this morning; they're regulars at my coffee shop. No joy finding their cat as yet.

If you’re 52 and don’t know Canada is metric, then you’re the idiot.

Of course, you see a sign saying 130, you go 130.

I think that cars here should have their speedo’s marked just in kph. 100 kph looks much more badass than 60 (ish) mph!

Lol, the UK still uses MPH too. The funny thing is in the US, we learn both metric and US customary in school. When I did concrete research in college, all our work was published in metric. Our professors would also purposely mix units in problems to screw with us lol.

Our military, NASA, and some of our industries use metric. Our medicine, alcohol, and soft drinks are measured in metric. All of our scientific research is done in metric. Basically, we could fully switch to metric if we really wanted to, but tbh, there just isn't any political will to do so. Things that need to be in metric, are already in metric.

I am rereading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. Aren is a city in that world, and weapons made of Aren steel are high quality and hard to break. I was assuming you had just added the “e” to the end of the phrase “Aren steel” to make it sound like a person’s name.

NY has a reciprocity agreement with Ontario. Ontario tickets and suspensions show on your NY record and vice versa

NY has a reciprocity agreement with Ontario. Ontario tickets and suspensions show on your NY record and vice versa

What the heck is stunt driving.

Around here we have „Raser“ laws, which kick in at certain level above speedlimit. In 30 km/h -> >70 km/h / 50 -> >100 / 80 —> >140 / 120 -> >200.

they take your car and at a certain point you get a mandatory jail sentence of one year minimum and you lose your license for at least 2 years.

Even below that you get fines on daily rates of your income.

More details here: https://www.rechtskraft.ch/raserdelikte-bin-ich-ein-raser/

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To be safe US drivers should just vacation in Liberia and Myanmar.

First time I drove to Canada I thought I hit the jackpot with their cheap gas prices...."per gallon"

Yes, literally every single speed limit sign in the province says km/h. Hard to believe someone from New York State would not know.

You guys really believe this, seriously?

No, what I have is a romantic abnormality--
One so unbelievable it must be hidden from the public at all costs

~Troy Mcclure

Florida man visits Canada.

At 160% speed

My current vehicle lets me choose digital or analog-not both. Analog doesn't show both units, but I can swap to km pretty easy.