There are two distinct area that need to be tackled - commerce and industry on the one hand and the genreal public on the other. In teh UK, commerce and industry is more or less metricated, but apart from the use of Celsius, we have a long way to go for educating the gerneal public. If you visit http://www.ukma.org.uk/Transport/index.htm you will see a table which summarises the situation as far as our raods are concerned.
As far as the general public are concerned, my observations suggest that within the UK there is very little resistance to metrication within the more educated sectors of the population - most of the resistance comes from newspaper editors who are selling "down-market" newspapers and consequently their readers provide the most voal opposition to metrication. Where this matters is that the vote of an unemployable drop-out counts the same as the vote of a highly skilled professional and the politicians know this. The fact that the unemployable dropout doesn't measure anything anyway is irrelevant - it is his vote that counts. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Rachtmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: [USMA:37504] Backdoor metrication ... snip > So my question for the other posters is: What do you think is the > biggest driving force behind metrication today and how long do you think > it will take for a "critical mass" to be achieved, where theres far more > metric than not. It appears already underway. > Once you attain that critical mass the pieces begin falling into place > on their own. Market forces will make metric compulsory. > -- > Bernard Rachtmann > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
