Update Speculation thread

Thanks for the information =)

 

Converting to metric, first of all, would be ruinously expensive; we would need to identify and replace literally millions of signs - and not just road signs either - which still use US measurements, which seems an unwise use of money when we're already hanging way out over the debt/deficit cliff just to fake what prosperity we currently have. Second, it would create a pointless generation gap between the older, educated mainly in US measurements, and the younger, educated only in metric, forcing the older to re-learn weights, distances, and so forth when they're already used to a different system and making communication between members of different generations more difficult that it really should be.

And all of this is for what? Just to be "just like" the rest of the world, I guess. Never mind that the current measurements work fine for 99.9999999% of everyday life, we have to be just like everyone else for... some reason! Thus, converting to metric would also be a victory of systems-logic - of the dry and theoretical - over human considerations, and of globalization over localization. Just as The Party in 1984 didn't know or care about the struggles of the pint-loving old prole who didn't think a half-liter was enough beer but no longer had the bladder strength to drink a whole liter at once, proponents of metric conversion don't care about the expense and difficulty of converting to metric, just that it makes more sense on paper. Can't any place or thing be safe from the Cult of Efficiency constantly standardizing, rationalizing, and systematizing everything just for the sake of doing so and regardless of any need to do so?

 

Compared to the usual stuff we throw our money at? Yes it is a lot of computer code to update, but it's worth it overall. Have you tried to do any calculations in American/Burma/Liberia units? Here's a hint, we had to change Newton's second law to get the thing to work because pound mass and pound force are wrong...

That's here regardless. Besides, they already buy soda by the liter.

Refer to the first part of this post.

I didn't hate the US system until I reached college level thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Now I hate it.

OT: I'm out of half thought through suggestions that start an argument half the time. Baja Piccobello when? Wait, we already have that... Rally Bolide when? Wait, that's taken... JATO Bubu when?

 

Burma and Liberia switched to metric some time ago.

When someone makes a mod for it.

 

Really? The most recent article I found listing those three was barely over a year ago. To my knowledge, the best way to describe Burma is mixed, you could make an argument that the US is mixed*, and I have no idea about Liberia.

*We use liters often, some street signs and all speedometers are in both miles and km, and schools teach both but generally use metric for problem solving. I didn't start using American units in problem solving until junior year of college "because that's what your industry uses so you need to get use to it".

OT: We have the JATO bus, so JATO cars isn't out of the question. 1960's American midsized/fullsized cars are often at the center of various forms of the JATO car urban legend, so it makes more sense than the JATO bus in a way.

 

*thinks of mythbusters episodes where they attempt to launch an old American land-boat*

 

According to some old website put up by someone who claimed to have been involved the original JATO car incident, the contraption was actually hackjobbed to run on minecart tracks, and the crash which got it buried in a mountainside (old mineshaft, until the braking system wasn't enough and the car took out a sketchy timber) happened - fortunately - during an unmanned test run. The car itself was a late-1950s Chevy Impala, so that part of the myth is sort of true.

 

I really would like to get a Bluebuck with a couple of JATOs bolted to the roof.

 

Will WCUSA see an optimization improvement? seems to run the worst on the house PC.
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The Mirimar fits in the same class as the likes of the Corona and Bluebird. maybe something like the Crown/Cedric would be a great idea for a future vehicle as there is potential for Police,Fire chief and Taxi variants. also some interesting luxury trims too (both hardtop and sedan body styles)

Spoiler: CedGlo and Crown 1960's to 70's. Picture Heavy

1960's




1970's

 

Man there were some good looking cars coming out of Japan in those decades. American design language in a compact package.

 

At the time, american design language was so much in fashion that even conservative brands like Mercedes-Benz chose to incorporate styling cues from overseas in their otherwise fairly classic designs - see the W110/W111/W112 "Heckflosse" models:



Similarly, bold and striking designs like the Chevrolet Corvair later inspired variously-sized reinterpretations by quite a few european marques:



These were the years of the economic boom. Nobody was really ashamed to reference the Wealthy Americans™, so it's even less surprising for the then still emergent japanese manufacturers to resort to plain copying at times, which they did quite profusely up to the '80s.

 

Dude we donate like 650 Billion in taxes to bomb farmers in other countries, I doubt a metric conversion would be that bad.

 

748 billion actually... According to the top google result.

OT: Group B Burnside when

 

Go go me fastest death in a rally race ever recorded.

 

Burnside too safe and slow use bolide instead for more Spheed

 

You know something's up when the Burnside is listed as the safer alternative.

 

Lancia Stratos-like Civetta when?

 

SWB Bolide when.

 

Rally bolide when?

 

Stop with this idiotic spam when?