What I would enjoy in a few years, when everyone's gotten used to the numbers, is if they slowly added "km " stickers after the numbers. Now what's the average person going to do?
1) Ask all the "km" stickers be removed? (then everyone knows its km in disguise). 2) Have all the signs changed so the numbers are miles (too costly, interferes with metric road maintenance). 3) Get used to it (incremental advance for metric). Could be an amusing dilemma. Nat >>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.
