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I know this may have been asked before in previous years, but will the US ever fully convert to the metric system or that will never happen? (Including road signs & temperature)
It is used by many. Note your 1 liter bottles of stuff. Kilograms of stuff.
We use it extensively in the Drone business. In fact, I usually leave my settings on metric...and most in the industry describe things in metric or in both.
We always used it in my boiler business - to note thicknesses of steel. Much easier to use "4mm" than to use fractions or gauges which you then have to look up.
I have to assume a lot of engineers use it....even here in the USA.
We know the medical industry uses it (cc, etc.).
"Do American engineers use metric?
American physicists and electrical engineers use the metric system very heavily. American mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and aerospace engineers tend to emphasize the US customary units"
I'd say we are a lot of the way there....but it would take a hard and fast government policy to make it full blown.
Anyway, the idea that it was tried and failed is ridiculous when you consider that it is used heavily in some of the most important fields.
"gram" is a metric unit. Maybe it's me....but I use those a heck of a lot...and I'm just a hobbyists (we weigh stuff in grams, state payload in grams, etc.).
So if I wanted a pint of beer I'd have to order a half liter? That's a deal breaker right there.
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