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I just bought a Honda Insight (2000 model).
It has a button to switch the entirely-digital displays to metric from the usual
US mode. Honda has quit making this car, I think, but I think that the
button probably appeared on its other-country models as well. They would
have had to change the computer and dashboard to not have it that
way.
I must say that it is annoying to use the metric
display and have to relate to US speed limit signs at the same time. Another
reason why we really won't achieve what we want until the feds have the guts to
change things.
There was some Canadian being interviewed on ABC TV
the other day. I remember that he made the statement (he was talking about
the horrible election results, of course) that "...it is the US that really is
the exceptional country." He wasn't speaking of excellence, but of being
different and at odds with the rest of the world.
HARRY WYETH
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