I agree with Bill Potts. My 2000 Honda Insight hybrid car has pure metric, or pure non-metric electronic digital display of travel information. The option is chosen by push-button toggle. I'll promptly set it at "metric" when road signs and maps are available in metric units.
On my trip Thursday to the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative which provides my electricity, my Honda gave me 92 mi/gal with a strong tail wind. On the trip home, it was 68 mi/gal with a weakened head wind. These were 'displayed cumulative averages' for each trip. The Prius has the advantage of more seats. The Insight (with only two seats) has the advantage of much better fuel economy. Gene Mechtly. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:20:05 -0700 >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:41079] Re: Werlings' recent trip in our 2007 Toyota Prius >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > I'm not sure I understand this urge to precipitously > convert odometers to SI. I would like an SI odometer > as much as the next person (on this list). However, > until the road signs and related stuff are converted > to SI, one is faced with a constant stream of mental > conversions. So I have to say, "Yes, indeed, but not > just yet."...
