Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings

Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by thedaemon on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:42PM (#21506853)

Funny story? Not a funny story. We are not metric. We would be metric if you bought items in metric. We do not. Doesn't matter what the scientist use. It matters what milk and bread is sold in. We buy drinks in liters and gallons. Those are not metric.

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by kube-system on Monday November 11, 2019 @03:01PM (#21508313)

>It matters what milk and bread is sold in.

The FPLA requires metric units to be included on labeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Packaging_and_Labeling_Ac...

https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-...

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by thedaemon on Monday November 11, 2019 @04:52PM (#21509283)

Yeah, we all see metric on the items we buy. None of us understand what that means. We understand 1 Gallon, not 3.785411784 L.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by kube-system on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:03PM (#21509382)

To the contrary, I've seen 3.8L or 3.78L written on every gallon jug for my entire lifetime. I know that conversion off the top of my head... even before I had mandatory science classes where I formally learned the same.

But even if you haven't read any of the text on a milk jug over the past half-century, surely you've seen one of these before?:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71x5rVYbJUL...

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by mattlondon on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:50PM (#21510173)

They said the same thing here in the UK years ago (the 90s I think) when they started forcing labels on food to have metric.

"I want a pound of sugar, not 453g!"

Turns out the world didn't actually burn down. The containers mostly stayed the same size, but I think they slowly gravitated towards logical sizes (so e.g. that 453g package became 500g or 400g at some point)

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by robin_reala on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:28PM (#21507999)

Litres are metric?

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by SahAssar on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:59PM (#21509846)

Yep, one litre is equal to 1 dm3 or 1 kg of water.

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