Somebody is pulling your leg or you're pulling ours. First, that may be a violation of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Second, if not, it should be. Can you imagine the number of wrecks that would occur as people quickly pulled out their cell phones to take pictures of that distraction while they're driving 80 MPH on a six-lane highway?
Federal law states that they need to have a speedometer functioning in every car at all times, so that whole "animation" thing would pretty much be illegal if it were real. Someone is definitely pulling your leg buddy.
He’s talking about the middle screen where it says mpg and stuff. Nothing to do with the gauges
The speedometer is displayed on the "middle screen where it says mpg and stuff"!
But you can change the 'other stuff' and the speedometer still shows... so I wouldn't call hooey until somebody turns 100,000 and watches it. It would be kinda cool.
Like that's any different than how distracted drivers are already? When's the last time you were cruising down a 6-lane highway at 80 MPH and someone wasn't looking at their phone?
Section 393 regarding a speedometer only applies to buses, tractor trailers, etc but not normal passenger cars. Most states don’t require a speedometer either. I first learned this from a CHP officer that was issuing me a ticket. He said that the oversized tires on my truck might have played a part in me speeding although according to my speedometer I wasn’t. He then told me that in CA a speedometer wasn’t required but going the speed limit is. Lol. But anyway, no, there is no federal law for speedometers on passenger cars.
