I know back in the 80s or 90s it was going to happen then it just faded away. I watch motor racing and see that they are now talking in kilometres. Was this recently re-introduced? Just curious.
2006-06-15 00:50:50 · 6 answers · asked by ezc692 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
I was watching the Champ car race and it was 225 miles ( 1 mile lap x 225) but they said it was x number of kilometres also. So thay covered that. I think I've also seen kilometres per hour speeds ( and -no - it wasn't from Canada!)
2006-06-15 01:14:22 · update #1
It started slow. I remember is from the 1970's. It took awhile to really get going.
2006-06-15 00:53:21 · answer #1 · answered by Ray 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Must have been. They were talking about it way back when I was in Elementary school. I was born in 1965.
In the lab where I worked for many years, we used the metric system exclusively. If we would just go to it, things would be much easier. The Metric system is based on multiples of ten while the standard in America is based on many things and the English system is based on what? A dead king's physical dimensions?
2006-06-15 07:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by madbaldscotsman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US has not gone to metric. When you see an event such as international racing, they refer to the measurement of the event in question. There still refer to auto races in the US as miles, they still use miles per hour and so on.
2006-06-15 07:53:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US is not metric. The racing sports are probably international, but so far, the US is not metric.
2006-06-15 07:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by limelight_story 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know the US is not metric. I have to convert my celsius to farrenheit for my American friends when we discuss weather
2006-06-15 07:55:56 · answer #5 · answered by Nessa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you deal with translation defects or noise?
2006-06-15 07:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by changmw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋