We started trying back in the '70s. What you saw is a leftover from that time - I can guarantee most of Kentucky doesn't know what a kilometer measures, much less how long it is. And the argument is incorrect: While we'd have to educate everyone here that 500ml is about a pint, the rest of the world would finally understand how much is in our stuff. It would actually, over time, cost less in packaging costs (like making up US-only labels for your Nutella). Or having to make different dashboards for your Toyota. Or all the unit conversions we engineers have to do - what is the actual definition of a horsepower? When I was in college, I'd do the work in metric then convert the answer, just for ease. And what about that $300 million divot we put on Mars because someone forgot to convert from squirrel to US Conventional? It's so much easier and no one really cares that a kilogram is technically mass, not weight....even if going metric our country and states would have a huge undertaking changing the intersections and for that reason alone the cost would be enormous and its never going to change "in my opinion"
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I actually watched this unfold live in NZ. My climbing partner (kiwi) and I (american) followed a car along a road close to Wanaka being driven by (ironically) an other american + passenger merrily and completely unaware in the right lane. We tried flashing our lights and honking to warn them, but no avail.. As we came to a curve we dropped back, not wanting to be directly involved in a potential accident, and watched as someone came around from from the other side in the same lane! Thankfully there was enough space and the drivers of both cars reacted quickly enough to avoid a head-on.Yea driving on left or right I suppose it does create a little caos. I've herd of plenty head on collisions up in the Northern Territory where German tourists forgot we drive on left side of the road and merrily driven off up the road on the wrong side of the road only to meet someone smack bang on a bend.