The speedometer, of course, tells you how fast or slow your car is moving when you’re behind the wheel. The traditional speedometer shows a hand that raises or lowers, or swings left and right, when ...

Modern road-vehicle tyres are made of extremely tough synthetic rubber and have steel wire and mesh reinforcement embedded within them, so they are far less elastic than, say, the tyres on my ...

The 2005 Bugatti Veyron did more than nudge the speedometer a little higher. It shattered a psychological and engineering ...

It doesn't seem so long ago that cars and trucks needed regular tune-ups. When cars were more analog than digital and couldn't self-diagnose problems, they required frequent adjustments. These ...

Yes, it does! Though not as much as speedometer fudging by your car manufacturer. Your car can only measure rotations of the axle, with expectations of tyre circumference based on its standard tyres.