What does mph mean on a car?
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mph on a car is a unit of speed measurement, where mph stands for miles per hour, commonly referred to as 'miles' in everyday language to indicate car speed. 1 mile is equal to 1.609344 kilometers per hour. It is typically used in the UK, former British colonies, and Commonwealth countries to calculate speed limits on roads, the speed of tennis serves, and also for measuring the central wind speed of tropical cyclones. Speed represents the vector of how fast and in what direction a moving point is traveling at a given instant, defined as the ratio of displacement to the time taken for that displacement. With the same displacement, speed compares the time taken: shorter time means faster speed, while longer time means slower speed.