Reasons Why The Metric System Better

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

As a mechanical engineering student I wholeheartedly agree that the SI system is utterly useless. Metric 4TMFW

Hey where do you go to school? I go to Kettering in Flint.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Jmac is alive?? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[GrayMatter4tw 10+ year member]

Hey where do you go to school? I go to Kettering in Flint.

I go to Michigan Tech. I took a tour of kettering but I never applied frankly because its too close to home.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

We use knots and machs or someting like that where I work. We don't use miles or km. The fastest we can go is mach 8 or something along those lines.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

We use knots and machs or someting like that where I work. We don't use miles or km. The fastest we can go is mach 8 or something along those lines.

Probably 8 knots (Nautical Miles Per Hour) since Mach 8 is 8 times the speed of sound. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Actually, I e-mailed another person at work....the best we do is mach 16.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Unless you have one of these, you're not going Mach 8 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

Every car I've ever driven has had both //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif
Well, every car I've driven on my trips up there had only KmPH. And when I worked for a Honda dealership, we had a customer buy a grey market (Canadian) Odyssey van and it only had KmPH on the speedo. What a PITA to get a new cluster AND get the wonderful CTDMV to actually let us register it.

I don't understand why they would need new bottles ... They use the same bottles every where, they just use mL instead of fl. oz. or L instead of gallons ... i.e. If you buy a bottle of juice here, it's not 2 liters, it's 1.89 liters (1/2 gallon) ...

Most likely new bottles would be needed out of public demand. People like round numbers.

You're completely dillusional if you really think this ...

You're dilusional if you don't think that. You honestly believe that the oil companies don't have their hand in politics? If they didn't, I can guarantee you that we would have much more fuel efficient vehicles on the road. And we would also have many more alternative fuels.

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

big block pinto will do mach 15 but i dont know about 16.

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

royalle with cheese

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

My 1994 Honda Civic Dx gets 40 mpg... a 94' Honda Civic VX got up to 56 mpg. Regular gasoline, non-hybrid, production cars.

Honda to the rescue again... the new Diesel Civic gets 40+ mpg city, 50+ mpg city/highway, and over 60 mpg highway. Wonder if the oil companies will be after Honda over this //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif It totally kicks hybrid tail for mileage for less money.

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews/car-and-driving/honda-civic-ctd-i-diesel-range-1003265.html

It's coming to the USA soon according to businessweek. I'm a huge fan of diesel technology... by design they are generally at least 30% better on fuel mileage. Audi even made a diesel based race car that did some major ownage on the track //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Now I am very curious what crazy numbers you could pull with a diesel hybrid vehicle... 75 mpg+ in regular real world driving I imagine.

Anyway... back on track... metric for the win. I'm a former engineering student and I totally agree.

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

My 1994 Honda Civic Dx gets 40 mpg... a 94' Honda Civic VX got up to 56 mpg. Regular gasoline, non-hybrid, production cars.
Honda to the rescue again... the new Diesel Civic gets 40+ mpg city, 50+ mpg city/highway, and over 60 mpg highway. Wonder if the oil companies will be after Honda over this //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif It totally kicks hybrid tail for mileage for less money.

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/car-reviews/car-and-driving/honda-civic-ctd-i-diesel-range-1003265.html

It's coming to the USA soon according to businessweek. I'm a huge fan of diesel technology... by design they are generally at least 30% better on fuel mileage. Audi even made a diesel based race car that did some major ownage on the track //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Now I am very curious what crazy numbers you could pull with a diesel hybrid vehicle... 75 mpg+ in regular real world driving I imagine.

Anyway... back on track... metric for the win. I'm a former engineering student and I totally agree.

Yeah, diesels kick some serious booty. My dad had an '85 Isusu P'up diesel. That thing advertised 50MPG but got more like 60-70. It couldn't get out of it's own way, and had a top speed of about 70MPH, but it could pull a house off it's foundation. I read somewhere that a group of "experts" did a study, and they figured out that if we ran as many diesel powered vehicles as they do in Europe, our oil consumption would be cut almost in half. C'mon America! Let's get some diesel torque!!

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

You're dilusional if you don't think that. You honestly believe that the oil companies don't have their hand in politics? If they didn't, I can guarantee you that we would have much more fuel efficient vehicles on the road. And we would also have many more alternative fuels.

I think there's some truth in that...what that has anything to do with the metric system or why it's not used in the US, I haven't a clue...

 

[bibby 5,000+ posts]

 

[jjski78 10+ year member]

I think there's some truth in that...what that has anything to do with the metric system or why it's not used in the US, I haven't a clue...

It's got nothing to do with the metric system. But, if you read my previous posts, and the other guys response, it does apply to the question as to why the U.S. is the only country that doesn't use the metric system.