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Climate Control reads both Celsius and Fahrenheit at same time
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<blockquote data-quote="1500cc" data-source="post: 322862" data-attributes="member: 8887"><p>Some things are too well established in our society to change, e.g. lumber. It wouldn't make sense to start designing houses around "metric" lumber sizes and then have two standards (although I'll bet lumber producers would love the shrinkflation opportunities of making 1x2 metre plywood). Same thing with tire rim sizes, even though widths are metric. Ford did briefly flirt with metric TRX rim/tire diameters (to everyone's annoyance), but that was partly because it was a new system that wasn't compatible with existing tires/rims regardless of size.</p><p></p><p>Even though we crap on the US for still be Imperial, in reality most of their government, manufacturing, defence, and aerospace has been metric for some time now. There's even a few roads down south that they measure in kilometres. It's just the common everyday usage of things like temperature or distance that hasn't changed, since that's so ingrained in people's brains. Heck even the UK still measures their roads in miles. And I'll bet for the vast majority of Canadians, they list their height and weight in Imperial, and if you ask someone the size of a random object (say, a pencil), they'll give it to you in inches instead of centimetres.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1500cc, post: 322862, member: 8887"] Some things are too well established in our society to change, e.g. lumber. It wouldn't make sense to start designing houses around "metric" lumber sizes and then have two standards (although I'll bet lumber producers would love the shrinkflation opportunities of making 1x2 metre plywood). Same thing with tire rim sizes, even though widths are metric. Ford did briefly flirt with metric TRX rim/tire diameters (to everyone's annoyance), but that was partly because it was a new system that wasn't compatible with existing tires/rims regardless of size. Even though we crap on the US for still be Imperial, in reality most of their government, manufacturing, defence, and aerospace has been metric for some time now. There's even a few roads down south that they measure in kilometres. It's just the common everyday usage of things like temperature or distance that hasn't changed, since that's so ingrained in people's brains. Heck even the UK still measures their roads in miles. And I'll bet for the vast majority of Canadians, they list their height and weight in Imperial, and if you ask someone the size of a random object (say, a pencil), they'll give it to you in inches instead of centimetres. [/QUOTE]
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