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by bobdole1234 3063 days ago
It's a UI thing.

Most of them set a range so the standard operating speed on a highway is roughly at the top of the gauge. In this way, people can gauge their speed when driving different vehicles my glancing at the position not reading the numbers.

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1. modern cars have digital speedometer display

2. many cars don't have a linear (circumferential) scale on the analogue display (because they put the "highwy speed" at the top of the semi-circle