[Healeys] Today's Rant

[John Vrugtman]

Back during that supposed transitioning period all the equipment I 
worked on went over to metric, because, of course, they sold world wide, 
just like cars.

John

On 4/24/2020 1:12 PM, Robert Begani wrote:
>
> What I heard back in the day,  a Michigan congressman saw a dual speed 
> limit sign in English mph and Metric kph.  He thought “why should I 
> and my constituents have to learn a European Language”.  
> Unfortunately, the Michigan car makers encourage him to propose an 
> amendment to the US law which provided for a 10 year transition to the 
> metric system of weights and measures.  This amendment put a temporary 
> hold on the progress and has never been removed so there was no 
> progression require conversion, to teach school children to learn and 
> so on.  However, there are many roads in the USA which still have dual 
> signs which by law cannot be removed as they are under phase one of 
> the law.
>
> Every country in the world using the English system of weights and 
> measures signed the international treaty and began to covert to the 
> metric systems, except the USA.  In all those countries children began 
> to learn the system in the 60’s and the use of dual signs and gauges 
> were acceptable until everyone in these countries became knowledgeable 
> in the metric system.  Too bad we had to say “wait a minute “ which 
> has lasted our lifetimes.
>
> Note, all automobiles, and many manufactured products are fully metric 
> today except the humans which use them.
>
> Bob Begani
>
>

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