Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:56:16 -0600 From: Shane Almeida <almeida.spam.is.evilnospam.is.evil.mindless.com> Subject: Re: 9-5 gas mileage?
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:42:10 +0000, Pooh Bear wrote: > Why oh *why* does the US want to be the bad boy when it comes to ( > ignoring ) international harmonisation ? Is it a testosterone thing or > what ? I can't work it out for sure. How much do you think it would cost to switch all the street signs that are in miles or miles per hour to kilometers or kilometers per hour? Don't forget: you can't just the switch the units, you'd also have to physically move the signs, otherwise "Boston 1 Mile" would become "Boston 1.609344 kilometers." Is it worth spending millions or maybe even billions of dollars to switch just to synchronize our measurements with the rest of the world? And aside from all the money we'd have to spend, metric isn't any more convenient for measuring distance in an automobile than the US system. The nice thing about metric in science and engineering is that the units are all related in some way. What good does that do me when I'm driving? So, really, what's the point? What exactly would we gain by switching to metric for distances? You really need to come up with a better argument from switching than "testosterone."
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