Are Americans secretly and slowly changing to metric?

Question

All racing games (PS3, Wii and X360 forward) such as Need for Speed and Gran Tursimo display speed in km/h only.

All soccer games such as FIFA and PES (formerly Winning Eleven) display goal distances in meters only.

Microsoft Office, as of 2010, shows dimensions in centimeters only, regardless of the country or language version. Inches were used for the last time on the Office 2007.

AutoCAD is metric-only since 2013, and even so, nobody used inches on AutoCAD since the late 2000s.

Most American e-commerce websites show dimensions of products in metric units, such as g, kg, cm, ml etc. Amazon does so since 2006.

As of 2016, all retail products in the USA come in round metric sizes. Imperial sizes are show too, but metric is the primary unit, for example, soda: 350 ml (11.83 fl oz).

Answer 1

Quick, what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold??

A pound of feathers by 25%. When is an ounce not an ounce? When one is 'Troy', the other Avoirdupois, the other is 'fluid' or dry!



It's only natural for the US to head toward metric. It's a rough change for manufactures, but we'll get there.



The US actually helped standardize the Metric system, and adopted it in

1893. They were adopted as the fundamental standards for length and mass in the United States. Our customary measurements -- the foot, pound, quart, etc. - are actually defined in relation to the meter and the kilogram ever since!!



In fact, the metric system is more American than our usual system! We had the Imerial system thrust on us. It's a wonder we weren't the first country to adopt it.



The metric system and the US money system are actually the same.

CENTimeter is .01 meter

Cents are .01 dollar, etc.



So the US is in a very strange period. We have a real mix of measurements.

Tires are like 260R70R18.

260 millimeters wide. 70% ratio of height to width, and 18 inch rims!!!

Metric width, inches for rims! Silly.



And the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed because of the mix of US Customary & Metric at NASA.



Where measurements are critical, only metric is used.

Medical uses cc's (milliliters), kg, etc.

Scientists ONLY use metric. Imperial is a joke for scientists.

Military uses metric. When you hear 'clicks' those are kilometers.

etc. etc. etc.



What we should do is only teach in metric, and be done with it. It takes me 1/2 day to teach all of metric. Takes 3 weeks to teach US Customary!

Answer 2

nope

Answer 3

No, it's just that the software is written by idiots

Answer 4

Although products may display metrics, so many other measurements are still in inches.



For instance, I am a professional seamstress. Everything, work related that I buy, whether it be fabric, trim, thread, zippers and what not, are all listed in yards and inches.



Therefore, I believe that liquid and solid measurements are changing to metric, but other forms of measurements, retail speaking, are still in yards, feet and inches.



As far as videos and computer examples you use to make your point, these things need to be universal, which is in metrics; in line with most of the world. The USA is behind the times in this regard.