orys:
Or the best one was scania from HH distribution: it gives you fuel usage at present in l/100 km, but when you want to check average fuel consumption for unknown reason it’s in miles per galon… :SIt’s only confusing. Why can’t they decide to use one system only?
you can change that by looking for settings in the menu 
205:
you can change that by looking for settings in the menu
So I need to change it SEPARATELY for current usage and separately for average usage? Where are these options?
orys:
Becouse time is based on some real events (12 moon months, 365.2422 days in Sun year etc) and we had to create system as close to it as possible.)Are the lunar months still the same? - I saw a programme that said the moon is steadily moving away from the earth…
If the lunar months have changed then perhaps we could look again at doing a 10 month year with a 10 day week… hang on… if they kept the weekends as they are now then we would be working 8 days a week
orys:
205:
you can change that by looking for settings in the menuSo I need to change it SEPARATELY for current usage and separately for average usage? Where are these options?
Can be changed SEPARATELY, yes
you will have to search the menu under SETTINGS, when youre stopped
ROG:
hang on… if they kept the weekends as they are now then we would be working 8 days a week
Well you would be if you’d got a job! 
205:
Can be changed SEPARATELY, yes
you will have to search the menu under SETTINGS, when youre stopped
Hm. Good to know. Thanks.
It’s shame that it works only when I am stopped though
ROG:
Are the lunar months still the same? - I saw a programme that said the moon is steadily moving away from the earth…
Yeah, we should think about that in some milion of years… 
gardun:
Don’t know if this is true, but it may shed some light on the matter of standard sizes!!The US standard railroad gauge (the width between the two rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in Britain, and British expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the British build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used. Why did “they” use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons which used that wheel spacing. Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome for their legions built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England). The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots first formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for (or by) Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
Specifications and bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder “what horse’s ■■■ came up with this,” you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of
two war horses. Thus, we have the answer to the original question.Now the extraterrestrial twist to the story…
When we see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses’ behinds. So, the major design feature
of what is arguably the world’s most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse’s ■■■. Remember this the next time you ponder how far modern civilization has progressed from our ancient roots!
Great post Gardun! Imperial evolved through time and has a historical basis. Metric has no soul…I was on the cusp of the change,used £sd until about 12 then “learned” about metric. What’s to learn? Add a zero to everything!
tartanraider:
Great post Gardun! Imperial evolved through time and has a historical basis. Metric has no soul…I was on the cusp of the change,used £sd until about 12 then “learned” about metric. What’s to learn? Add a zero to everything!
How that story is related to the impreial system?
4 feet 8.5 inches is as stupid as 1435 mm for the railtrack wideness…
Maybe we should keep the imperial system. 
This bloke got a prohibition from VOSA for an oil leak etc and was stopped again 3 weeks later.
According to the odometer 7,329km had been travelled since the prohibition was imposed. He had agreed that the vehicle was still under prohibition and said that he was on his way to purchase some tyres.
In regard to the discrepancy in distance, he had claimed that the vehicle had been used off the road by a friend and that his niece had been using it to learn to drive. He had added: “I don’t know what a kilometre is.”
orys:
4 feet 8.5 inches is as stupid as 1435 mm for the railtrack wideness…
Which concidentally are the same distance.
Colingl:
orys:
4 feet 8.5 inches is as stupid as 1435 mm for the railtrack wideness…Which concidentally are the same distance.
Off course it is. That’s why I told, that this story about why the railtrack are of this size aren’t good to support nor Imperial, nor metric system, as in Both it’s not a plain number.
Mr B:
I’d go even further and start driving on the left like most of the rest of the world.
Remind me when you are on the road in your truck and driving on the right and I’ll stay at home.
Mr B:
I’ve often wondered how much it adds on the price of cars designing them just for britain.
Probably not much mate, it’s an urban myth.
People who have a problem with the UK and the one third of the world driving on the left really do have too much time on their hands.
The metre is also based on a worldly measurement. Its a ten millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator.The expedition that discovered this was French their leaders name was Metre the second in command was a Monseiur Condom history seems to have forgotten him though.
I can’t work out if Orys is using a translation website.
Either way, his musings remind me of that “Borat” film I watched last week.
Highlander:
Why are vehicle tyre sizes a mixture of imperial and metric?
I often wondered this and discovered many years ago what each tyre number meant. Here is a shortened explanation of 4 popular sizes.
Example 1 = 205/65R15 94H (Passenger Car tyre size)
205 - Section Width in mm
65 - Aspect Ratio
R - indicates radial casing construction
15 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches
94 - Load Index (94 - 670kg)
H - Speed Symbol (H - 210kph).
Millimetric
Example: 180/65R390 85V (Passenger Car tyre size)
180 - Section Width in mm
65 - Aspect Ratio
R - indicates radial casing construction
390 - Nominal Rim Diameter in mm
85 - Load Index (85 - 515kg)
V - Speed Symbol (V - 240kph).
Example A: 8.25R16 128/126L (Light Truck tyre size)
8.25 - Section Width in inches
R - indicates radial casing construction.
16 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches.
128 - Load Index when fitted as a single tyre (128 - 1800kg)
126 - Load Index when fitted as one tyre in a dual tyre set (126 - 1700kg)
L - Speed Symbol (L - 120kph)
Example B: 10.00 R20 16
10.00 - Section Width in inches
R - indicates radial casing construction
20 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches.
It doesn’t explain why they use both measurements, but it explains what the number and letters mean.
Dazza:
I can’t work out if Orys is using a translation website.
Becouse I am not. And I am recommending not to use them to everyone, at last when slavic languages are concerned.
Either way, his musings remind me of that “Borat” film I watched last week.
What’s musings?
“Musings” are thoughts or reflections pal. I should have put “ramblings”.
P.S. Do you know Borat?
Yeah, I know. He’s quite funny.
Anyway, it’s always funny for me to see american’s point of view on people from the East
Wheel Nut:
Highlander:
Why are vehicle tyre sizes a mixture of imperial and metric?I often wondered this and discovered many years ago what each tyre number meant. Here is a shortened explanation of 4 popular sizes.
Example 1 = 205/65R15 94H (Passenger Car tyre size)
- Size Designation: 205/65R15
205 - Section Width in mm
65 - Aspect Ratio
R - indicates radial casing construction
15 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches
94 - Load Index (94 - 670kg)
H - Speed Symbol (H - 210kph).
Millimetric
Example: 180/65R390 85V (Passenger Car tyre size)
- Size Designation: “180/65R390”
180 - Section Width in mm
65 - Aspect Ratio
R - indicates radial casing construction
390 - Nominal Rim Diameter in mm
85 - Load Index (85 - 515kg)
V - Speed Symbol (V - 240kph).
Example A: 8.25R16 128/126L (Light Truck tyre size)
- Size Designation: 8.25R16
8.25 - Section Width in inches
R - indicates radial casing construction.
16 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches.
128 - Load Index when fitted as a single tyre (128 - 1800kg)
126 - Load Index when fitted as one tyre in a dual tyre set (126 - 1700kg)
L - Speed Symbol (L - 120kph)
Example B: 10.00 R20 16
- Size Designation: “10.00R20”
10.00 - Section Width in inches
R - indicates radial casing construction
20 - Nominal Rim Diameter in inches.
It doesn’t explain why they use both measurements, but it explains what the number and letters mean.
I remember in the '80s, British Leyland fitted metric tyres to Metros and Maxis.When they needed replacing,they were almost impossible to get hold of and when you did find them,they were very expensive.