Posted by MarkB_MI on June 25, 2015 at 02:15:29 from (70.194.30.91):
In Reply to: Why not metric ??? posted by da.bees on June 24, 2015 at 20:17:02:
Basically, it was a lack of will. As with everything, when faced with making a difficult change that's best in the long run versus doing nothing, most folks will opt to do nothing. Making the switch to metric is just a macro version of going on a diet or saving for retirement: it takes will more than desire to make a change. The will of state and federal governments to push metrification simply isn't there, and in the current political climate it isn't going to happen.
The only place where metrification has succeeded is in those industries where the need to produce and sell products outside the US outweighs the desire to placate US customers. Which is why the auto industry is pretty much 100 percent metric. Interestingly, though, nearly all cars, regardless of the country of manufacture, use 7/16 bolts for the seat belt anchors; apparently that's the only fastener that meets federal safety standards.
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