Speed Limiters
Governors can be used to limit the top speed for vehicles and for some classes of vehicle such devices are a legal requirement. They can more generally be used to limit the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine or protect the engine from damage due to excessive rotational speed.
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Famous quotes containing the words speed and/or limiters:
“No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The only thing that could spoil a day was people.... People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)