km/h or mph?

[Daniel]

When I turned 5, I got NFS:III and my dad wanted to mess around with it for a while. He changed the options to kp/h. I had a look at the differences, and thought that kp/h was faster
Then I got used to it, luckily New Zealand uses the metric

 

[RogsR34UK]

I use mph and what bugs me is that I have effectively chosen Imperial Units, yet torque is still in a "foreign language". I preferred GT4 where you got lbs/ft for torque which was more meaningful for me

 

[Shaun]

As soon as I saw the title of this thread I figured it would become a mine is better than yours debate.

As someone who has learnt both the Imperial and Metric systems, firstly from moving from one country (imperial system) to another country (metric system) and then later in my working life where I use almost every concievable type of nuts, bolts etc.

I can positively say that one of the systems is born out of common sense and the other of just adding to it over the years, hence making one so much easier than the other to learn and use.

Anyway use whichever one you know and suits you, both are quite adequate for GT5 and life in general.

I'll leave it up to you to decide what I use.

 

[Egghead43]

One unit of measurement is no more accurate than the other.
One unit of measurement may be more precise.

Some people here need to learn the difference between accuracy and precision

Thank you! 👍
I just read through this whole thread hoping somebody would say this

For those who actually care:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

Personally I use Km/h because I'm from Canada.

My real life track experience has mostly been on motorcycles where I had my lap timer placed right over the speedo so I had no idea how fast I was actually going

You should be looking at the track (brake markers, turn-in points, etc) when you're racing, not your speedo.

 

[InfernalTyrant]

Metric > imperial.

 

[NOS Waster]

Metric > imperial.

Thank you for the comment that doesn't contribute at all.

 

[zedextreme8177]

I don't use the HUD on Premiums, but use km/h on Standards.

However, I don't have any issues driving American cars as I follow this general rule:
50mph=80 km/h
62mph=100km/h
100mph=161km/h
125mph=201km/h
150mph=240km/h
186mph=300km/h
200mph=322km/h

 

[Acquire]

Being American, I use mph because it's just easier.

 

[Evil_Poptart]

I live in Canada and all the street signs are posted in km/h and all my life I've been using metric. However, playing this game I prefer the units to be in US customary units (mph, HP, ft-lb) just because that's how I commonly hear them being expressed and it's more intuitive to hear that a Nascar stock is 850 HP than 634 kW.

My friend showed me a quick way to quickly estimate between miles and kilometers rather quickly using the Fibonacci sequence (which I found really cool because I'm a nerd like that).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number

As the sequence progresses the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches the irrational number phi which is approximately 1.618 (the proof of this requires quite a bit of math, so I'll just leave it out).

Now, 1 mile is approximately 1.6 km so this actually works out very nicely.

Example:
Say you're given a distance of 8 miles and you want to approximate the value in kilometres.

The first few values of the Fibonacci sequence are:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 98, 144...

Find 8 and notice that the next number in the series is 13.

Hence, 8 miles is approximately 13 km.

To go from kilometers to miles, just go the other way.

Now if you're given a value that's not a Fibonacci number, you can break that value into the sums of Fibonacci numbers and find each of its successors (to go from miles to km) or predecessors (to go from km to miles) and add them up.

For example, given 60 miles and you want to estimate it in kilometers.

Consider the sequence:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 98, 144...

Notice that 60 = 55 + 5
The successor of 5 is 8
and the successor of 55 is 89

The sum of 8 + 89 = 97

Hence, 60 miles is approximately 97 km.

Once again to go from km to miles, just work in the opposite direction of the series.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Even though I'm originally from the EU where Kph is the standard I live in the US now and I use MPH. I liked the simplicity that Kp/h gives you in that 100 is quick 200 is fast 300 you're flying but the numbers do go up and down a lot quicker which makes it more difficult to work on your technique unlike MPH where numbers are in the double digits longer.

 

[Big Ron]

One of the dumbest threads ever 👎

"What are you using....km/h or mph?....I use mph because I use it......I use km/h because I always use it"

Where is the sense behind it? With some intelligence you would know, that most people use units of their everyday useage. Or do you think, that in Germany most players use mph, even when our real cars show us km/h? Same in the States but exactly reversed....

 

[magburner]

Miles per hour man - it's Imperial! 👍

 

[niky]

Even though I'm originally from the EU where Kph is the standard I live in the US now and I use MPH. I liked the simplicity that Kp/h gives you in that 100 is quick 200 is fast 300 you're flying but the numbers do go up and down a lot quicker which makes it more difficult to work on your technique unlike MPH where numbers are in the double digits longer.

I've always thought of it as 100 is legal, 200 kills you, 300 kills you quickly.

 

[NOS Waster]

I've always thought of it as 100 is legal, 200 kills you, 300 kills you quickly.

This is win.

I think of MPH as:
60 is legal
100 kills
200 is suicide
300 is WTF?!?
400 is

 

[Big Ron]

I've always thought of it as 100 is legal, 200 kills you, 300 kills you quickly.

Nope, in Germany even 300 km/h is legal, which is 195 mph or like that.

 

[MGF_72]

Km/h because I'm used to it and it's based on the international SI unit for lenght, metre, which is the most logical and easiest to use in math - why everyone should use the metric system. 8-)
10millimeter = 1cm, 100centimeter = 1meter, 1000 = Kilometer, 10Km = 1 mil.

12inches = 1 foot, 3 foot = yard, 1,760yd or 5,280ft = 1 mile... Thank God I don't have to work with this system in my math.

Same here 👍

 

[witham]

Why is there no lb ft for tourque in gt5 is the most common in the uk and I think the US but I don't know. I hate having to use kg m with bhp it just doesn't work it should be lbft or NM

 

[Big Ron]

Km/h because I'm used to it and it's based on the international SI unit for lenght, metre, which is the most logical and easiest to use in math - why everyone should use the metric system. 8-)
10millimeter = 1cm, 100centimeter = 1meter, 1000 = Kilometer, 10Km = 1 mil.

12inches = 1 foot, 3 foot = yard, 1,760yd or 5,280ft = 1 mile... Thank God I don't have to work with this system in my math.

Exactly .... was probably thought up by Americans again, so they can do their own thing and not rely on others.

 

[Krizzay]

I use stonethrows per minute

 

[Mr. Premium]

Wull. Isn't the average answer dependant on the location of each poster? Generally we go with whatever is the standard in your country, with few exceptions.

I'm in Canada, I'm used to driving with KPH. So I prefer to use KPH in my Gran Turismo. I do kinda think Metric is a better system overall for measurement, everything being measured in 10's is often much easier to work out extremely precise distances. But sometimes imperial is better for any sort of quick reference, for some reason I understand weight in pounds better than KG's.

Also, I use ibs-ft for torque

 

[Gaiajohan]

The only non-metric thing I use is bhp. I think nowhere in Europe kW is used much for cars? For cars it's just:
Power - bhp (PS)
Torque: Nm

 

[MiniMarco]

My car is from japan (km/h) with a british speedo (mph) and I'm in Canada (km/h) but I use mph in GT5 just cus im used to seeing it.

 

[ay91]

For all the people asking why metric system is superior, this is why:

 

[Krizzay]

The only non-metric thing I use is bhp. I think nowhere in Europe kW is used much for cars? For cars it's just:
Power - bhp (PS)
Torque: Nm

Same here, problem is, for bhp to work, we need to use ft/lbs for torque, not Nm. Thats a mistake on our behalve.

bhp = torque(in ft/lbs) x rpm/5252
or
Kw = torque(in Nm) x rpm/9xxx (somewhere in the 9000's, don't really know it by heart)

edit: for those who don't know, on a dynosheet, hp and ft/lbs curves always intersect on 5252 rpm, Kw and Nm curves always intersect on 9xxx something rpm.

 

[icleolion]

to hotlinking fail.

Mph here.

 

[ay91]

to hotlinking fail.

What are you talking about?

 

[Peter3759]

Kilometres! Always.

 

[THEALB10N]

It's more precise actually.
It's because km/h has a smaller scale division than mph.



I use mph and kg!

Uh, no. There's 1760 yards in a mile. A yard is smaller than a metre, so you could argue that, by your logic, a mile is more accurate.

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Personally I use miles for distances, despite having spent the past 10 years in a KM country. I do, however, use kilograms or stone for weight. I'm fine with either.
I can't do volumes. I'm just terrible at estimations. I couldn't tell how much a gallon or a litre was. Well, all volumes except pints I suppose

 

[GinoLicious]

I use the system associated with my country. Its stupid to not know how fast you are going, which is KM/H in my case.

 

[Big Ron]

Uh, no. There's 1760 yards in a mile. A yard is smaller than a metre, so you could argue that, by your logic, a mile is more accurate.

Who sais, what is more accurate and what not. What is the official length of something in science?

In my opinion your example shows very good how complicated your units are.

Your mile has 1760 yards, our kilometer has 1000 m, our meter 100 centimeter and our centimeter 10 milimeters....very easy for math-stuff.