How to determine the best speed for your car on the track
- June 22, 2023
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The choice of speed on the highway, especially on a long journey, depends not only on the time in which you reach the destination of the journey, but
The choice of speed on the highway, especially on a long journey, depends not only on the time in which you reach the destination of the journey, but also, for example, on how much you get tired. And is your car safe on the road?
Not every motorist thinks about what speed to consider “correct” for a particular car. Most of them work on the principle: feed +19 km/h up to the limit level. To be faster and without fines. However, when it comes to the highway, where the permissible limit is set at 110 km / h, there are “questions”.
It turns out that driving at 130 km/h “with impunity” is not comfortable for the driver of any car model. The experience of a large number of motorists shows that, in fact, the optimum speed for your car can be determined without even leaving.
The easiest way to do this was at a time when car speedometers were purely mechanical. Now they are electronic on almost all modern cars, but the principle remains the same. Your device will display the optimal speed for the circuit when the arrow is vertical, “at 12 o’clock”. It is clear that this is not dogma. It is more correct to talk about the range of optimal speeds – when the instrument hand is somewhere between the 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock positions.
On the speedometers of most passenger cars now driving on Russian roads, this corresponds to an interval of 90-110 km / h. For some brand models, it may be slightly offset and in the range of 80-100 km / h or 100-120 km / h. This is in relation to cars with physical speedometer arrows. Everything is a little more interesting when we have a digital device in front of us. Which shows the driver the current speed directly in numbers on the dashboard monitor, without any hint of all those “11 o’clock”, “12 o’clock” and the like.
In this case, it makes sense to “climb” to the settings menu of the dashboard display and select there the option that visualizes the speed readings in the form of an electronic simulation of the dial of a classic speedometer. We look at it and act according to exactly the same algorithm as in the case of a mechanical counterpart, determining the optimal speed range of the movement.
Practice shows that both the suspension and the steering work best in a car at high speed. And the engine does not show increased appetite – as at speeds tending to “maximum speed”.
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Not every motorist thinks about what speed to consider “correct” for a particular car. Most of them work on the principle: feed +19 km/h up to the limit level. To be faster and without fines. However, when it comes to the highway, where the permissible limit is set at 110 km / h, there are “questions”.
It turns out that driving at 130 km/h “with impunity” is not comfortable for the driver of any car model. The experience of a large number of motorists shows that, in fact, the optimum speed for your car can be determined without even leaving.
The easiest way to do this was at a time when car speedometers were purely mechanical. Now they are electronic on almost all modern cars, but the principle remains the same. Your device will display the optimal speed for the circuit when the arrow is vertical, “at 12 o’clock”. It is clear that this is not dogma. It is more correct to talk about the range of optimal speeds – when the instrument hand is somewhere between the 11 o’clock and 1 o’clock positions.
On the speedometers of most passenger cars now driving on Russian roads, this corresponds to an interval of 90-110 km / h. For some brand models, it may be slightly offset and in the range of 80-100 km / h or 100-120 km / h. This is in relation to cars with physical speedometer arrows. Everything is a little more interesting when we have a digital device in front of us. Which shows the driver the current speed directly in numbers on the dashboard monitor, without any hint of all those “11 o’clock”, “12 o’clock” and the like.
In this case, it makes sense to “climb” to the settings menu of the dashboard display and select there the option that visualizes the speed readings in the form of an electronic simulation of the dial of a classic speedometer. We look at it and act according to exactly the same algorithm as in the case of a mechanical counterpart, determining the optimal speed range of the movement.
Practice shows that both the suspension and the steering work best in a car at high speed. And the engine does not show increased appetite – as at speeds tending to “maximum speed”.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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