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Originally Posted by MBeige
I never figured out why the increments in our MB fuel gauges are not evenly spaced.
Maybe they knew about this non-linear property and compensated for it by making the gauges this way. |
Bingo! Teutonic OCD all but guarantees it could not have occured accidently! 50,000 years of human evolution driven by spending five months a year sitting in a cave trying to survive the mean and lean season has consequences!
Thanks for noticing and bringing this to everyone's attention, it is so easy to overlook some of these most subtle examples of engineering genius!