irnbru14

I guess that stopping distances are much much shorter in NZ as the distance travelled is in km, which is obviously a shorter distance than a mile. Only way I can work out why people drive sooooooooo damned close to each other here...

Tooanfrom

We just call it "Audible nearness factor" (just wait for the bang and you are close enough)

Steve and Julie

You only have to look down at the road, to see all the glass at intersections.

Am Loolah

I have a similiar query?

If when you travel in miles the thing on your dashboard is called a mileometer - does that mean when you travel in kilometers it is called a kilometermeter?

Maz

In the US they call it a "trip-meter" (sic)

People keep a lovely long distance behind me here. Not sure if it's just the way they drive, or they're in awe at my wonderful car.

Am Loolah

Or your wind ...

irnbru14

You doing warp 5 up that gorge again!!!

A trip meter, isn't that linked back to the LSD days of the late 60's???

dlmckay

When I first got here, I used to keep two car lengths in front of me as I was used to doing in the UK. However, there's some sort of vacuum that sucks cars into that gap from the other lanes... I was practically going backwards trying to keep two car lengths of stopping distance.

Given up now and if I can see tarmac in front of my car, I'm too far away when in Rome...

Kiwiprincess

I am far too literal and I never know if someone is asking something rhetorically or not. but it is called an odometer.

irnbru14

So how do you count the even miles/km then???

Kiwiprincess

that took a while for me to work out...

very slow on the uptake this morning. I think the grey weather has slowed down my brain.

Maz

Beg to differ, they're too different things. The odometer is the one that cannot be tampered with. Easily, at any rate. Not that I've ever tried or ever would.

The tripmeter is the one you can reset yourself.

And yes IB, definitely linked to LSD. Duuuuuuuuude!

Kiwiprincess

Ahhh i forgot about the little tripmeter one which you can play with. Actually i think that is what it is called isn't it-tripmeter?

irnbru14

I think the technical NZ term is "tripmeter, bro"

irnbru14

And I think it was the speedometer that was being discussed too