Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: 02SE
The last time I checked, the USA had the largest road network of any Country. Something like 6+ times the size of Canada. There are A LOT of road signs out there that would need to be changed, and for what benefit?
If I really want to know what something equates to in Metric, it's easy enough to do the conversion in my head.
OK, and you have 10x the population, so per capita we have more roads? LOL!
Think about it. On a comparable sized land mass, with 10x fewer people, but heavily roaded, we still managed to make a go at it and get it done, and this was during a period where everything was analog, so gas stations had to change, thermometers...etc. It's a far easier job now than it was then. Jesus man, if you can develop a plane like the SR-71 Blackbird, I'm pretty sure you guys can manage to change your road signs over.
Now, to what benefit? That's the issue. I'd say the primary one is standardization like the rest of the world and why your cars and most everything else uses metric fasteners, but maybe you don't want that
The point, is that we have more roads, WITH road signs. Most densely concentrated around cities. So yes, lots more road signs that would need to be changed.
Here, I Googled it for you:
Countries by Road Network size
As for spending billions (or more) to go completely Metric, Why? Anyone should be capable of converting Miles to Kilometers in their head, and if they aren't, they likely have a Smartphone that can do it for them.
So no, I don't see the need or point of converting.