22nd February 2004, 12:37 PM
Eh, it's not exactly like it needs to be done all at once. BAsically, just have a new ordinanec so that whenever a speed limit sign faded or was knocked down or stolen or something, it's replaced with a metric sign.
Odd story, yet amusing for some reason. One time, my mother and I were amazingly lost in some backwoods nowheres land. Pavement had long since left us behind and dirt roads were all that could be seen. At any rate, we came across a speed limit sign that not only had kilometers on it, but ONLY had kilometers on it. For the first time, to get to the speed limit, we actually would have to use that smaller kilometer scale on the spedometer, and it was in hicsville at that. Almost makes me wonder if hillbillies are actually geniuses PRETENDING to be morons... Maybe there's some cloaking device hiding some advanced civilization, with a barely understandable drawl...
Speed limits aren't the first thing on my mind when converting anyway. Just convert everything ELSE to metric, easy enough, scales support it, most foreign machines use metric units, and even various soda bottle use metric. Save the whole speed limit thing for last, and maybe it won't even be needed to convert. After all, no one even pays attention to speed limits any more :D. It'll be rather odd telling someone how far away a place is in kilometers and they are reading MPH, but who cares?
Besides, it's superior!
Odd story, yet amusing for some reason. One time, my mother and I were amazingly lost in some backwoods nowheres land. Pavement had long since left us behind and dirt roads were all that could be seen. At any rate, we came across a speed limit sign that not only had kilometers on it, but ONLY had kilometers on it. For the first time, to get to the speed limit, we actually would have to use that smaller kilometer scale on the spedometer, and it was in hicsville at that. Almost makes me wonder if hillbillies are actually geniuses PRETENDING to be morons... Maybe there's some cloaking device hiding some advanced civilization, with a barely understandable drawl...
Speed limits aren't the first thing on my mind when converting anyway. Just convert everything ELSE to metric, easy enough, scales support it, most foreign machines use metric units, and even various soda bottle use metric. Save the whole speed limit thing for last, and maybe it won't even be needed to convert. After all, no one even pays attention to speed limits any more :D. It'll be rather odd telling someone how far away a place is in kilometers and they are reading MPH, but who cares?
Besides, it's superior!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)