New Tesla accessory, probably not fake...

[Spock]

RAMd®d wrote:
Whitworth for the win!

Oh, I'm sure that I have a couple of BSW "spanners" in my garage.

[Speedy]

JoeH wrote:
[quote=Sam3]
[quote=cbelt3]
[quote=AllGold]
Yikes.

I think it's weird that the world never standardized on one side or the other.

Don’t get me started on Metric…
Well... the world did standardize on metric, it was just one kind-of big country that decided it was too special to do that.
And the US was on the path towards metrification until one certain president cancelled that.
Well, the metric system is valid in the USA in spite of that president’s promise to his math-challenged voters.

[lost in space]

I got fluent in both English (now, is that a misnomer or what?) and metric doing machine design. I liked metric a whole lot better. In the modern world, our system seems just plain stupid.

[Carnos Jax]

As an engineer, and student before that, I've worked with both units as well. Metric is far easier to work with as the former, and makes learning science and engineering a lot easier for the latter. It is criminal that ignorant f'cks in this country that don't deal with the units like we do for a living, have such a say in what we use. It makes things difficult, dangerously at times, just for the sake we can say 'murica!

[rgG]

Carnos Jax wrote:
As an engineer, and student before that, I've worked with both units as well. Metric is far easier to work with as the former, and makes learning science and engineering a lot easier for the latter. It is criminal that ignorant f'cks in this country that don't deal with the units like we do for a living, have such a say in what we use. It makes things difficult, dangerously at times, just for the sake we can say 'murica!

Yeah, but what other system has a gross or a double gross as a unit of measure. miley-laughing001:

[Carnos Jax]

rgG wrote:
[quote=Carnos Jax]
As an engineer, and student before that, I've worked with both units as well. Metric is far easier to work with as the former, and makes learning science and engineering a lot easier for the latter. It is criminal that ignorant f'cks in this country that don't deal with the units like we do for a living, have such a say in what we use. It makes things difficult, dangerously at times, just for the sake we can say 'murica!

Yeah, but what other system has a gross or a double gross as a unit of measure. miley-laughing001:
Or slug as a unit of mass....how many slugs are you?

[rgG]

Carnos Jax wrote:
[quote=rgG]
[quote=Carnos Jax]
As an engineer, and student before that, I've worked with both units as well. Metric is far easier to work with as the former, and makes learning science and engineering a lot easier for the latter. It is criminal that ignorant f'cks in this country that don't deal with the units like we do for a living, have such a say in what we use. It makes things difficult, dangerously at times, just for the sake we can say 'murica!

Yeah, but what other system has a gross or a double gross as a unit of measure. miley-laughing001:
Or slug as a unit of mass....how many slugs are you?
I don’t even understand “stone” as a unit of mass, much less “slug”. Lol
Don’t even get me to thinking about “hands” for height of a horse.

[gadje]

In my work I make products that are in the metric system but most equipment is English. It’s so screwed up.

[JoeH]

mattkime wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
For the record, the UK is NOT guilt-free. They still use miles per hour for highway speed limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed...ed_Kingdom

Also, they measure beer in pints, not liters.
Remember that is an Imperial pint, not an US pint. That is just over 19 US ounces, or 20 Imperial ounces.

[davester]

I thought that this was an Onion article, but no...it's a Musk article, more or less the same thing. It makes sense though, since almost the entire world drives on the right. Oh wait, that's not entirely true...only 66% of the world population drives on the right. The other 34% drive on the left, including...

Australia
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cook Islands
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Niue
Norfolk Island
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Solomon Islands
Samoa
Tokelau
Tonga
Tuvalu
Asia

Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
East Timor
Hong Kong
Indonesia
India
Japan
Macao
Malaysia
Nepal
Pakistan
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Africa

Botswana
Kenya
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Cyprus
Guernsey
Ireland
Isle of Man
Jersey
Malta
United Kingdom
South America

Guyana
Suriname
Caribbean Basin

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbados
Bahamas
Barbados
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Dominica
Grenada
Jamaica
Montserrat
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
Other Islands

Bermuda
Falkland Islands
Maldives
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha
Seychelles
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands

I guess that Musk doesn't care about that insignificant 34% of the world market.