How should the United States undergo metrification?

Certain fields of science and engineering are thoroughly entrenched in the standard system of units and I don't think there's any way you'd ever convince them to do things otherwise. Of course, they could simply become a trade system of measurements, just as there's plenty of non-SI units that are perfectly common to find.

Of course, one has to wonder why it even matters when the main convenience of metric is its simplistic conversion factors hardly ever even comes into play. Like, seriously, how often do you need to convert gallons to hogsheads?

PS: Get out metric robots.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

Parts of I-19 (Tucson to Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexico border) are in metric, which is totally wacky. One minute you're driving 55 MPH and then next you're supposed to 90 KPH, and you're 20,000 m away from where you're going and you think to yourself "fuck I'm so far away" but then you're there in a couple minutes.

There was actually a road in either Delaware or Maryland that was built with all metric numbers that we used to drive along every time we'd go to the beach. About ten years back they changed it to Imperial because I guess everyone was just doing eighty eight miles per hour!

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