Sorry Paul, but "miles per hour" is *censored* without some form of deprecation.
I'm hoping that Fourth Generation (4G) communications technology will enable all of us to mark objectionable expressions by highlighting in red. EAM, Inquisitor. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:13:50 -0500 >From: "Paul Trusten" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47690] RE: Are metric speed limit and/or distance signs >permitted by US Federal law or regulation? >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > > Metric is legal(1866), and metric is the federally > preferred standard (1988), but, for motor vehicle > matters, we would still need one little thing to > make it a reality---metrication. We would have to > metricate signs, auto equipment, and also human > minds, to make it work. The truth is that it is > confusing to put up kilometer distance signs for > people who are untrained in thinking metric, and may > be downright hazardous to erect metric speed limit > signs which would fool some people into thinking > they can go 160 km/h when they see speed limit 100 > and think that is miles per hour...
