Comment offer both.. metric = 1/3rd the size and... (Score 1) 1487
As soon as kids enter high school they'll start ordering pints instead of 40's
Engine sizes have been metric for years... people talk about the legandary "5.0" for example... only a few holdouts will call it a 302...
speed? do the canadian thing... put the US system 2/3rds larger or something w/the metric equiv beneath it... which all auto gauges do anyway...
people would think fuel were cheaper if it were 1.39$/litre instead of 3.00$/gallon... they'd see the 1.39$ and shit themselves... if your ig'nant enough to drive a hummer you probably won't notice...
distance... this trips people up the most... if they stopped teaching little kids the us system and had them use the metric system first.... by the time their old enough to start really caring all the signs will use both... and while we're at it lets teach thems spanish and mandarin as well...
when I was in elementary school we learned both systems... but it wasn't until high school that anybody followed up on that... chemistry & physics were probably the first time the metric system was touched upon... and between those times everything had been related to me in miles/gallons/lbs... so the metric bit had fallen out of use...
I use the metric system now when I know I'm going to have to do some kind of conversion... but then again I've been converting mpg-->knots for years so I'm used to it.
I'm pissed that I need two sets of tools though.
Engine sizes have been metric for years... people talk about the legandary "5.0" for example... only a few holdouts will call it a 302...
speed? do the canadian thing... put the US system 2/3rds larger or something w/the metric equiv beneath it... which all auto gauges do anyway...
people would think fuel were cheaper if it were 1.39$/litre instead of 3.00$/gallon... they'd see the 1.39$ and shit themselves... if your ig'nant enough to drive a hummer you probably won't notice...
distance... this trips people up the most... if they stopped teaching little kids the us system and had them use the metric system first.... by the time their old enough to start really caring all the signs will use both... and while we're at it lets teach thems spanish and mandarin as well...
when I was in elementary school we learned both systems... but it wasn't until high school that anybody followed up on that... chemistry & physics were probably the first time the metric system was touched upon... and between those times everything had been related to me in miles/gallons/lbs... so the metric bit had fallen out of use...
I use the metric system now when I know I'm going to have to do some kind of conversion... but then again I've been converting mpg-->knots for years so I'm used to it.
I'm pissed that I need two sets of tools though.
