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So I'm guessing your answer is Metric...........Been a long long time since I’ve come across any car, foreign or domestic, that didn’t use metric nuts and bolts.
So I'm guessing your answer is Metric...........
I wish the US would switch to metric... how expensive can it really be at this point...
I wish the US would switch to metric... how expensive can it really be at this point...
Although the UK has officially used metric since 1965, there is still money for a guerilla operation to deface the metric road signs!!!
It takes a generation. Canada did it when I was a kid. It wasn’t that big of a deal. And the transition for road signs etc took about 6 or 7 years. Meh. I can still function in both
I just ordered Wednesday and began looking at the owner's manual yesterday. Didn't know it was so hard to get a one word answer LOLGood guessing!
If you look at the owner's manual, it lists the rims as inches (18,19, 20) but its Lug Nut Socket Size is only listed in millimeters!
Yeah the UK is a bonanza of weird mixes of whatever the hell they feel like using. At least we are consistently noncompliant with the metric system over here.
It's not really as crazy as all that. The UK is basically metric for any serious work involving quantities (science, commerce). They just retain a few of the pervasive/traditional items like road speeds and "pints" (20lfoz, not 16) of beer etc. But schools/education has been metric since the late-1960's.
We tried it in California in the early 70s. It was a colossal failure.
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No one liked it. There might be all of ten signs like this remaining throughout the state.
This is a serious question:
I am well into my seventh decade, and obviously I have used the imperial system my entire life. What I like about it is that the measurements standards are easy to eyeball and explain. Eighteen inches is pretty easy to mark off. For those using the metric system, what do you say? Forty-five hundredths of a meter? Four and one-half decimeters? Forty-five centimeters? Four hundred fifty or so millimeters? I can pretty closely visualize a meter, centimeter, and millimeter. But visualizing tens of centimeters or hundreds of millimeters is difficult for me.
I guess it is hard for me to visualize lots of tiny units or significant fractions of larger units when the imperial system has refined the units into small, medium, large, and extra large.
Billions upon billions upon billions of dollars. Probably trillions. if you think it'd be cheap, you aren't thinking hard enough.
All the signs… twice (you think it can be done without a transitional period? Think again). Huge changes to legacy software. Retraining a hell of a lot of people that rely on the system not changing. Surveyors?. Car nav systems (and speedometers in some cars). Textbooks. Thermometers. Stoves. Thermostats. Blueprints. So so so so much more. LAWS! Think of how many laws are explicitly worded using imperial. Then you've gotta actually educate people on this stuff. How long do you think it'll take Americans to get used to thinking their body temperature should be ~37 instead of ~98.6? The aviation world at large mostly uses nautical miles and feet. Should they change too?
On top of that, all the cultural stuff like hand-egg and baseball.
Behind the scenes almost all industry, government and science HAS switched. We just show the "dumb" Imperial face to the general public. It is so crazy when you think about it since the definition of an inch is 254 mm. YES we use metric to define the Imperial system. We already buy drinks by the liter and all food is labeled with metric info. We run 10Ks and we take 325mg aspirin. It is just so easy compared to this bull we have. Like how many yards in a mile or ounces in 1 gallon + 1 quart +1 pint or how many ounces in 3¼ lbs? How about is that a ⅔" or ⅞" or ¾" or ⅗" or 1⅛" nut? 17mm or 22mm or 19mm or 15mm or 28mm (closest in metric) or so much easer and logical to understand and visualize.Billions upon billions upon billions of dollars. Probably trillions. if you think it'd be cheap, you aren't thinking hard enough.....