An article with some humorous advocacy of the metric system from an automotive writer: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/AUTO-PRINTZ-COLUMN_6369310/AUTO-PRINTZ-COLUMN_6369310/ Recently, I have been in automobiles or driven on roads where speed was measured in kilometers per hour, rather than in miles per hour. I came away thinking that it’s ridiculous that the United States still employs a unit of measure that dates to a British act of Parliament in the 1590s. . . . Except for the kph at the end, it is really pretty good. I sent him a note about "km/h".
