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Originally Posted by California98Civic
FWIW, my UG often shows slightly different numbers than my ODO. Off by one or two miles.
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Everyone seems to feel that a GPS is the ultimate in geographical accuracy and maybe it is, but my mother has mine and while she keeps telling me that she will return it, I worry that I will need to drive up there to get it.
I do not know how accurate mile markers ever were, but a margin of error of less than a mile should be adequate for most purposes. As for my odometer, I would expect that to vary fractionally as my tires wear out. Yes, mile markers may be put in the wrong spot after construction, but what if they made the highway longer or shorter, wouldn't that make the rest of them inaccurate, too?
From one mile marker to the tenth subsequent, my odometer showed 10.163 miles. For all that I know, both are inaccurate.