yenahmik comments on Why is the USA the only country that doesn’t use the metric system?

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[–] yenahmik@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (5 children)

That reminds me of a road in AZ that had signage in KM when I was a kid. I guess it was a part of this program and it never got changed back? It was always a mindfuck suddenly seeing kms instead of miles on road trips through the area.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago (1 child)

It's still there

https://azdot.gov/adot-blog/kilometers-arizona-you-bet

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[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Interesting, I always thought it was because it goes straight to Mexico, so many people using it would prefer kilometer. Cool to see my local highway on Lemmy.

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[–] artifex@piefed.zip 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

There was a stretch of the Florida coast that had metric in the late 90s and early 2000s, but people kept stealing the speed limit signs. They also had a problem with people misunderstanding 100kph (about 60mph) and doing 100mph instead.

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[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

“Misunderstanding”. They just wanted to speed

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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I’m assuming 2L soda bottles are also a remnant of this era.

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