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...

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