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The Straits Times
|September 06, 2025
The reading on my car's speedometer is different from what is shown on the smartphone's navigation maps. Is this normal?
It is common for a car's speedometer to report a higher reading than what is shown on a smartphone's navigation app.
In a conventional analogue speedometer, the measurement is taken off the gearbox usually by a small gear, driven by the gearbox output shaft. The rotations of the gear are transmitted to the speedometer by a coaxial cable.
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