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The children of the '70's know this was tried, actually anyone who was school age or able to drive a car then knows it. The problem was that it was a tiered attempt; changes were overlaid on the existing imperial system, and no one needed to change. Distance on highway signs were shown in kilometers as well as miles, speed limits were posted in KPH as well as MPH. Had the federal government instead done a dump transition, that is switched everything over to metric, everyone would have adjusted in a couple months and we would be on the same system as most of the rest of the world.

In short, it has never been made necessary for Americans to switch, and we so easily assimilate elements from other cultures (look at the bolts and nuts on any "American" made auto--if you don't have metric and SAE wrenches, you aren't going to be able to do much).

Should we switch? Two thoughts here: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and if we hope to continue competing on a world stage, we should probably consider making the change.

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