I meant to say a few feet shorter.
On 2007-11 -26, at 02:15 , Bill Potts wrote:
Not only is the use of feet inconsistent, but to say "an extra few
feet of stopping distance" shows a terrible knowledge of elementary
physics. Relative to normal tires, snow tires should provide a
shorter stopping distance.
Bill Potts
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of James Scott Hudnall
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 23:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:39777] Re: Canadians fight back
It is always good to see progress. A few weeks ago I saw a
commercial for the Canadian Tire Company on one of the Canadian TV
stations we get on cable here in Seattle. The ad stated that their
snow tires give an extra few feet of stopping distance when
traveling at 60 km/h. I forgot the exact distance they claimed, but
found the mix of units odd.
On 2007-11 -25, at 17:08 , Ezra Steinberg wrote:
I was shopping at a hardware store a little northeast of Seattle
when I saw tubes of clean, washed sand marked "30 kg / 66 lb".
I started to congratulate our continued shift to (rational) metric
as evidenced by this weight labeling when I noticed that the
manufacturer was located in Vancouver, BC!
At least there are times when the Canadians can push back and
influence us in the right direction as opposed to all the ways we
create a drag on Canada's evolution toward metric because of our
overwhelming presence in the land of USC (US Customary) units.
It also shows that at least some Canadian manufacturers have
shifted into "metric mode" in their thinking by adopting a
rational metric size for their packaging.
Ezra
