As a fellow Aussie - I'd have expected you to be used to "kay" for kilometer, "kilo" for kilogram as that's all you tend to here, although you've got a point with inches, but I'd have to say inches/centimeters don't come up that often. As far as for a universal system - metric seems to make sense - given one of the mars landers went splat wasting X millions of dollars due to this conversion issue, and given the US is one of 3 countries still using imperial measurements, it would make sense purely from an ease of interacting/scientific trade point of view that I don't understand the retisence.

I believe the issue is that some of these cars have a computer controlled auto gearbox that does not actually disengage drive when slapped into neutral.

Same for Australia - nothing but Microsoft Windows from Dell for any consumer grade machine, which is frustrating as a customer, there is no way I'm going to be paying for something I don't want.