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by perl4ever 2909 days ago
Science, even at the level of secondary school classes, has used metric in the US for a very long time. I don't know where people get this weird idea that Americans don't use SI. Imagine Americans making fun of Europeans for not speaking English, because they thought multilingual = not speaking English. That's how silly this meme is. Every car I've ever owned had km on the speedometer.
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> Every car I've ever owned had km on the speedometer.

Same here. (Although, I've driven a couple cars that only had a single scale of digits on the gauge. Pressing a button would toggle the meaning of the numbers from mph to km/h and swing the needle around to point at whatever was correct.)