You know me Paul...I wasn't disputing anything. It just made me think.
Did the DOT rules relax over the past few years
on the speedo km/h requirement?
At 20:47 2009-02-15, Paul Trusten wrote:
Changing road signs can only be a small part of
metrication. What about the speedometers,
odometers, driver training, federal and state
traffic regulations, statements of the heights
of tractor trailers in meters so the drivers
will understand the meters-only clearance signs
that will replaces the ones that now read in
feet? If there are jobs to be held for
metrication, they will be created in many areas
of our lives, and each metric transition must be
coordinated with the others. There will be jobs
in signage, sure, but there will also be jobs in
writing new regulations, jobs providing metric
training, jobs in designing new products or
changes in old products. Once the Nation's
leadership makes the decision to go metric, all
of these things will follow, e.g., there would
be a DOT requirement that, by a certain date,
all vehicles made in the U.S. will display
speedometers that read in kilometers per hour
only, and odometers that accumulate kilometers
only. Metrication is all or nothing. It's a life process; a living thing.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Brian J White
To: <mailto:[email protected]>U.S. Metric Association
Sent: 15 February, 2009 22:29
Subject: [USMA:43020] Re: More companies primed
to pounce on metric-only labeling
What gets me about sign changing, is...whatever
happened to the DOT requirement that cars must
be sold with both km/h and mph on the speedo?
Mercedes over the past 3-4 years seems to be
getting away without it...they are mph only it looks like.
I know GM has numbers only with a legend that
switches between mph and km/h, but the Mercedes
cars look to be mph only all the time. Makes
for a suck time when driving to Canada I'm sure.
My wife's old Honda Civic (I hated that car.)
had both mph and km/h markings, but only MPH
illuminated at night. Talk about a bozo design
feature right there..... I tried to talk you
out of the Honda again Nat, but to no avail. :)
At 19:36 2009-02-15, STANLEY DOORE wrote:

The NIST has drafted legislation to
provide for metric only product labeling. If
Congress would pass it and the President sign
it, there would be a great move to go all metric.
If ALL people would contact their
Congressional representatives, then perhaps
something would happen. No single
organization can do it alone. However, most
companies want to go metric and many already
have gone metric like the auto industry has.
With the current stimulus bill recently
passed and it's called a jobs bill, it would
be appropriate to have all road signs changed to metric very quickly.
Stan Doore
