โDongles per snongleโ sounds like a British person measuring the gender ratio at their local pub
Reminds me of an app I downloaded the other day to help plan routes. They asked for my cars โKPLโ.
Like what? Who in the world says KPL? Itโs l/100KM.
While Iโm aware that some places may use KPL, it just seems very American to go โhey, we use MPG, so they must use KPLโ.
I grew up with km/L.
I donโt mind using whatever scale, but itโs somewhat better for comparing the numbers that cars actually use, because with l/100km every car is five something or six something.
Also the higher numbers are better like everything else on the car comparison cards.
Yeah maybe itโs just being an American but mpg makes sense in an intuitive way, so kpl sounds like it would be rightish. Iโd never guess that people would use l/100km, and I use metric somewhat regularly in my personal life
Guess the difference is what you grew up with and therefore intuitively prefer:
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allegedly american thinking: This baby sucks X gallons. Letโs see how far I can get with it
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allegedly non-american thanking: I need to drive roughly X 1/2 hundred kilometers, and that will burn that much fuel.
Fuel consumption makes more math sense, especially when doing mental math comoarisons. Litres per 100km or the newer Gallons per 100miles for USA makes it easier for linear fuel consumption calculations. This quote explains: "The advantage of measuring fuel consumption this way is that it makes comparisons easier as fuel efficiency improves for a specific vehicle. Thatโs because the differences are linear. With miles per gallon, efficiency is graded on a curve. For example, for a 15-mpg car, a 5-mpg improvement is a 33-percent gain. But that same 5-mpg upgrade for a 30-mpg car is only a 17.5-percent improvement to a vehicle that is already using half as much gas. " With litres per 100km a 5 litre increase is 5 litres regardless of starting fuel consumption.
Iโd love to know which cars you drive with 5-6 l/100km lol
My best vehicle is 10. My worst is 28. Unless youโre a hybrid, I donโt know of a single vehicle doing 5-6l/100km
Iโve had Opel, Renault, Peugeot, VW, Skoda, Mazda, Suzuki.
None of them were worse than 7 L/100km. Pretty much all modern cars go at 5 L/100km unless you get something with a larger engine.
Never had a hybrid.
what? Even my parents 6 Seater family car drank only 8l back in the day, I drive my Opel Astra with about 7 and my brothers little fiat drinks 4,5 if he drives efficiently. You gotts have either s pickup truck or something really old.
Dude itโs such an easy conversion between dongles and whatsits, you just donโt get how intuitive it is. There are 42.48 whatsits in a dongle, and 17.49 dongles in a shlorp. Europeans are overreacting so much
I feel like this is part of the the joke because Americans often focus on Europeans when metric comes up. Iโm Australian, and I have been assumed to be in Europe a number of times by US internet commenters on the topic haha
There was this one redditor a few years ago who thought I was European because I held different values than him (Iโm American). Man am I glad I donโt use Reddit anymore
I prefer to measure speed in football fields per minute.
As an american, Itโs easier when you convert football fields to watermelons and seconds to no healthcare. One you start thinking in terms of watermelons per crippling medical debt, everything clicks. Youโre welcome.
Is this a joke about black people not being able to afford healthcare or something?
Noโฆ Not at all but what gave you that idea? Besides, everyone here enjoys medical debt or an undiagnosed ailment. Sometimes both if youโre lucky.
You make dem der figures FPH nโ you got a deal. I donโt wanna be going no 600 yards a minute. I wanna be cruisin at 35000 yard and hour, ya hur?
A mile is about 15 football fields, so if we did switch to using that measurement, we could all be going 1,000 on the freeway.
Ur gotdang right. My Mopar might be a four banger, but with cheezus behind the wheel weโre gonโ near 1700 nโ gettin 500 a gallon.
