...and I would be ECSTATIC if the United States was even anywhere close to full metrication as the UK. The AP is the first step in my mind. Stop converting everything.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:11 To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:46683] RE: And, by the way...... I'm not sure Stephen (Humphreys) is wrong. He seems to be just describing how the average person sees these signs: My car has broken down; if I give the numbers on this sign, someone will be able to find me. Since the distance figure does not say what units are used, the driver may not know what they are - in his mind they may just be a location number, with no understanding of how that number was derived. So he seems to be simply describing an observed fact, that the average driver is not seeing km on the road, marked as such. As long as the regulatory (speed limit) or informational (how far it is to ---) signs are in imperial, the driver is going to think he is in a mile world. Interesting how little remains to be done - the road information, beer, milk, and how people measure their bodies colloquially. When I was over there in May of 2009 I could see that pretty much everything else was metric, but the road sign stuff is so overwhelming that people don't think so. [The entire original message is not included]
