By: schrepfler
Some countries have regulations that prohibit spending more than x hours behind the wheel without a break and non-driving days. Possibly something that a company would install into their fleet of trucks to track this.
By: Drizzt321
There's a Delica parked just down the street from me on the west coast USA right now. I'm almost a little jealous, except a 2nd vehicle just isn't in the cards for me right now.
By: Flatland_Spider
<blockquote>The Maptwin was, however, wired into an RPM counter that was attached between the transmission and the speedometer cable, presumably to delivery extremely accurate and convenient display of how many kilometers have been traveled since the display was last reset.</blockquote>
That makes sense. Instead of messing with the trip function, if there is one, of the car, use the Maptwin which probably has more features.
I used to note the odometer reading to get an idea about how far the next direction change was when maps were a thing. This is probably much easier to deal with since the people aren't doing math at 70mph. LOL
By: ppp
That little van looks like an awful lot of fun!
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By: javaden
I'm a long term reader in Japan, this article hit me though I'm not familiar with these car equipment.
My quick search results suggests this device is a trip meter often paired with another device called "Rally Computer", so my guess is the owner used this to count per trip driving distance when there was few trip meter integrated with the odometer.
This web site (in Japanese) refers to lots of old rally computers and according to this the original manufacturer of this device F&O Systems is still in operation though this device is likely no longer supported.
http://people-power.jp/hup0801/rally/rallycon.html
http://www.fando.co.jp/