I didn't know that was a law ... I just thought manufacturers did it because
people might drive to Canada or Mexico. Porsche also uses miles only on their
speedometer, one reason I recently passed on a Boxter.
If that law is on the books, we should remind Mercedes and Porsche that miles
only ist verboten. Does anyone know whether there still is such a law?
From: Brian J White
Sent: 02/15/2009 8:29 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
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
