stackyFACTSBefore digital readouts, knowing how fast you were driving involved a spinning cable dragging a magnet. As it turned faster, the invisible magnetic field dragged a tiny aluminum cup with it, pulling against a delicate spring to bounce the needle. It was pure rotational physics disguised as a dashboard metric.
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