Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > >> >> Off-topic from an off-topic thread? What an oxymoron. >> >> And yeah, teachers always say that we'll be switching to the metric >> system but it will never happen. I'm still in high school and my >> economics teacher says that all of the time. > > I read in one of the textbooks (forget which one, sorry) that US actually > did try switching to kmph (kilometers per hour) from mph (miles per hour) > in regards to road signs etc., But then people had a hard time following > it. The government considered it as a failure and switched back. Someone > please correct me if I am wrong.
It's a state-by-state thing. So far, to date, in the US I have only seen kilometers listed on highway signs in California (this says bad things about the metric system if California's the only one to adopt it here), listed side-by-side with English measures, and only on the Pan American Highway (I think CalTrans is assuming a lot of intercontinental traffic or something...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
