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 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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