> What worries me almost as much as the possibility of > confusion and traffic accidents, even deaths, > amongst Irish motorists because of a possibly > botched changeover to metric speed limits is the > fodder or ammunition this would give to opponents of > metrication of road signs in the UK.
All there needs to be is one accident, or God forbid a death, that can be somehow attributed to the metric changeover, and it will slow any possibility of a British change to an even slower crawl. In the Canada, the speed limit changeover was timed to coincide with the beginning of the new car model year. The industry was notified, in advance, that all cars that would be sold, in Canada, for the new model year, would have to have km/h as the larger numbers on the speedometer, and the odometer would have to reflect kilometers driven. Is Ireland going to require that all newly manufactured cars have a primarily metric speedometer and odometer? ( I realize that many odometers today are digital). Stephen
