I've been keeping track of FC by tank and not by trip. I don't normally drive to work, so there's no long or regular trip to provide a repeatable baseline. However, the last two weeks I've been driving to a new workplace so I've been recording the trips to and from work. And I've been intrigued by my sudden improvement in FC at the end of the first week of commuting\, which has more or less carried over into this week. This morning (Saturday) I had a few errands and returned home briefly. I left again and soon after saw the following display on the (metric) HSI! TRIP B 40.0km CONS. 4.0l/100km AVG. 40km/h Is that spooky or what? Sadly, I have no evidence of this phenomenon as I was in traffic and my smartphone was in a secure cradle. But just a few hours again, I snapped this unaltered (well, cropped) photo that proves what I said earlier by induction since it shows the same thing. Almost. Does anyone else have a curious HSI (or navigation) display story backed up by photographic evidence that is non-existent or marginal at best? (40km is 25 miles, 4.0l/100km is 70.6 mpg(UK) 59.1 mpg(US) 25.0 km/l and today's temperature was 9°c - 48F.)
I like buying gas in the morning some 10+ miles from home because I can roll out of the station on EV, go through residential Burlington City on EV and stay off the scale for a couple of miles until I'm in traffic on a rolling county road. Starting off at 99.9mpg the commute ends above 60mpg. If the weather's good I can hold this for 4 days or more; sometimes for the entire tank.
I should have tagged the post "trivia", "silly" and "of interest to Aspies and OCD only." There's a reason I didn't post this to the Fuel Economy forum. I seem to notice combinations of numbers on the odometer, other meters and the navigation system more than my wife. It's one thing when the odometer rolls to 10000, but quite another when the odometer rolls to 11111 and the trip meter is 111.1. I've seen examples of "Odo Art" (I just made that up, I don't know if it has a name) in Japanese car magazines (Option, Style Wagon). It's an amusing game. However, the HSI is not "set" by the driver. The way the numbers roll depends on a wide range of factors. One could contrive it, but it would not be as simple as resetting the trip meter at a pre-calculated point and letting things take their course. I happened to reach 40, 4.0, 40 and then 80, 4.0, 40 on the display. Had I driven 120km yesterday it would have been interesting to reach 120, 4.0, 40. (My final numbers were 105.7, 4.0, 41 so I was in with a chance.) Counter-argument: One could also argue that at an average speed of 40km/h - 25mph FC of 4.0l/100km 70.6 mpg(UK) 59.1 mpg(US) 25.0 km/l is unremarkable and therefore the HSI display could be reasonably expected to repeat at every multiple of 40. And it might be difficult with a HSI displaying imperial or US measures; though a Japanese HSI could show 25km, 25km/l, 25km/h. How to play Think of a combination or sequence of numbers, text or symbols that you have noticed in your car. Note: this is not restricted to the HSI. Think of an explanation for the phenomenon. Calling it a phenomenon helps with the grandiose explanation. Present scant evidence of the phenomenon in the form of a photo that proves nothing or an anecdote that is even worse. Note: Evidence backed up with references may be reported to the moderators.
I can see that the no-one is interested in this topic. Challenge accepted. I accept that the only people who might find this amusing are obsessive compulsives and fans of Viz Magazine's Lame to Fame column, but they should be all over the Internet. How's this: 39.0km, 3.9l/100km, 39km/h And most exciting of all I have photographic proof! Even the time is divisible by 3.
I think I get it... My parents once had 123456 789.0 on their (Volvo 245) odometer. Does that count? (Obviously they reset their tripmeter when the big counter read 122667, so it did need more planning than your random spooky findings...)
I'm an admin on a board where someone from the IP address 11.12.13.14 (Columbus, OH) registered. That got me curious and I discovered the IP address 1.2.3.4 is in South Australia.
Many, many years ago, I was commuting in little red Toyota truck and pulled up to an intersection on my morning route during the 7 o'clock hour. The intersection was at HWY 77 and FM 70 and my odo read: 77,777. Way before digital so no camera handy to record it. I haven't bought a lottery ticket since...... <kidding>.
Hey Presto, where was your 234 hiding? I set the bar low and there were no takers. I raise the stakes and now they're coming from everywhere. Must be the Olympics. 1.2.3.4 is in South Brisbane in Queensland, not South Australia. I wondering who they are and how they got such a high-class IP address. The only song I can think of with a 7 is "Seventh Son of the Seventh Son" by Iron Maiden. Even if FM70 was playing "In the Year 2525" that would be a Spooky Epic.
I got the IP location from here. Songs with "7" in the title (from my iTunes library, in alphabetical order): "Magnificent Seven" by The Clash; "Seven" by David Bowie; "Seven Drunken Nights" by Flogging Molly; "Seven Sisters" by Tori Amos; "Seven Ugly Cows" by The Residents; "Seven Years in Tibet" by David Bowie; and "Silent Night/Seven O'Clock News" by Simon and Garfunkle. Note that this doesn't count seventeen (So no Janis Ian, The Sex Pistols, or Ladytron), 70, 700, etc.
I got it from whois. No matter. You have that many "seven" songs just in your iTunes library? (I sense another FHoP topic.) I found "Seven" by Simon Singh in his mathematics series "Another Five Numbers", "Father Forgive Them from 'Seven Last Words from the Cross'" by James MacMillan and "Beat Girl" by John Barry Seven.
I actually trust your source more than mine (mine shows me being one town over, yours is right on the money). I'm going to use that from now on for IP checking; thanks.
I tried to get that set of numbers on my 1985 Volvo 240 and FAILED. How sad is THAT? Has anyone in the 300K odometer club ever taken a picture of Pi x 10 to the 5th: 314159 miles? I once read a newspaper article by a guy who said he would go out of his way to be in a zipcode at the time his odometer reached the number.