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What about the odometer?
Inaccurate speedos especially concern drivers of diesel vehicles. They assume an inaccurate speedo also means an inaccurate odometer, which would result in them paying too much in road-user charges. Fortunately, most odometers are accurate and calibrated differently from the speedo. The international rules say an odometer must read within four percent of the distance travelled.
If you're concerned about your odometer's accuracy, don't test it using the speed readout of your GPS. Instead, do several point-to-point tests using the GPS distance readout over straight roads of 5km or more.
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