{"id":42209,"date":"2021-09-10T20:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42209"},"modified":"2021-09-10T20:08:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:08:04","slug":"autos-speedometer-works-even-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-speedometer-works-even-in-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Autos: speedometer works even in reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about cars and driving: the tutor mentions a surprise.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFor some reason, I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while now if the speedometer on a typical car works in reverse. I&#8217;ve been guessing &#8220;no,&#8221; since I can&#8217;t see a purpose why it would.<\/p>\n<p>Driving my kid home from school yesterday, I went into reverse, then remembered to glance at the speedometer. Indeed, it flicked up from 0 to 1, then 2, as I reversed.<\/p>\n<p>I could hardly believe what I&#8217;d seen, so I repeated the experiment, with the same results.<\/p>\n<p>I drive a completely middle-of-the-road minivan, so I doubt this feature is confined to it.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about cars and driving: the tutor mentions a surprise. For some reason, I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while now if the speedometer on a typical car works in reverse. I&#8217;ve been guessing &#8220;no,&#8221; since I can&#8217;t see a purpose &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-speedometer-works-even-in-reverse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autos: speedometer works even in reverse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42211,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions\/42211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}