[cmrdporcupine]

Yes I always find this funny. England is kind of totally opposite from Canada. Distances and speeds in miles, everything else metric.

Our speedometers can all switch, too these days. For travel into the US. Even Google maps will switch units right after you cross the border.

FWIW MPH has the advantage that it's easier to estimate travel times based on typical 60MPH hwy speed. A minute per mile more or less. 100KMH is more easily divisable etc. but doesn't map to time units as well. So in a way, I kind of enjoy driving in the US.

(In terms of localization stupidity, I find it obnoxious that Google's navigation can smoothly handle the transition into the United States, but cannot handle the mixed French/English nature of signage in Canada. I suppose I should have raised this as a bug when I worked there, but I find it awful that after over a decade of having text-to-speech facilities in both languages, Google can't handle bilingual countries and butchers mixed signs and gets completely fucked when driving into Quebec. Also Google photos thinks "thanksgiving" is end of November, despite me being in Canada.)

[hyperman1]

As an european: Our speed limit is generally 120 km/h and maps very well to time units. We wonder how you cope with your 74 mph

[cmrdporcupine]

In reality here in Ontario on the major highways the legal limit is 100km/h but actual practice is 120km/h. It's rare to go below that on the actual multilane 400-series highways, and rare you'd get ticketed for going that high.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

That feels wrong on so many levels...

[za3faran]

Are you referring to the fact that 120km/h means 2KM per minute?