These are getting old. It's not that the US doesn't use the metric system, doesn't want to, or can't, it's just not practical nor cost effective to try and implement it nationwide. Let's give a practical example. Most languages are read left to right. Now imagine if you lived in one the countries that had a left to right language and someone came along and said "Oh you read left to right? That's so stupid everyone knows reading right to left is better." So let's just change everything to that. You must now read right to left and write right to left. Of course this means you must update every law, book, policy, sign, and document everywhere in your country to this new format. And it can't be just new laws, books, signs, and documents it has to be all of the ones that are in effect now. Don't worry though after completely changing the industry to manufacture this change the government will cover the cost of everything.
But to cover the new budget the government sets out, taxes will need to be increased 10% for the next 3 years. Don't worry though, because after 3 years well look into it and see if reducing the taxes back will be okay. You don't need to worry about that though, we'll leave it for the future us to decide.
I don't really care one way or the other, but in terms of cost, it seems like this would be like implementing any major change or trial run. You start small. Go town by town or city by city or whatever you want. Don't remove the old measurements, just so people have a frame of reference. Keep them side by side (like on odometers), but make the obsolete version slightly smaller/less prominent, until they're no longer needed. It would take years upon years upon years, but America could get there eventually, if they were truly interested. Whether they need or want to be is another matter
Roughly 95 years give or take a few and that's only if you manage to completely finish one town or city a day. One every two days would take about 191 years. One every three days would take about 287 years. There are about 35k towns and cities in the US. This kind of sustained project would never work. The only way I can see this working would be for a law to come out mandating that every "new" sign, document, etc... have both. Even then it would never really get finished there's just too much to get done. And since the only way to fund it would be through taxes you'd never convince the people to vote yes for that and anyone who tried would never get into office.
If one town a day is all they can handle, then I suppose they'd be in for quite the long haul. But, again, just because a supposed problem isn't instantaneously fixable doesn't mean you should ignore it.
Also, They literally release policies mandating new products pass certain regulations all the time. Like seatbelts, for example. Cars didn't always have them. They realized there was a better way, and found a way to implement it, and made it mandatory that any new vehicles have them. Same with building codes, food regulations, environmental solutions, etc, etc.
Like I said, I don't care what America does. Supposedly the system used there is outdated, incompatible, and prone to error. If that is the case, and they won't bother to fix it, then they reap what they sow in the long run. Otherwise it just causes minor confusion/inconvenience when dealing with foreign parties/countries.
I'm just saying it's far from an impossibility to implement it
They've certainly been willing to waste taxes on less progressive things in the past. As have most countries, which, despite being self-apparent, I still have to say for some reason, or else at least 7 people will take this as an attack on the American people, and they themselves personally for some reason
Also, They literally release policies mandating new products pass certain regulations all the time. Like seatbelts, for example. Cars didn't always have them. They realized there was a better way, and found a way to implement it, and made it mandatory that any new vehicles have them. Same with building codes, food regulations, environmental solutions, etc, etc.
Like I said, I don't care what America does. Supposedly the system used there is outdated, incompatible, and prone to error. If that is the case, and they won't bother to fix it, then they reap what they sow in the long run. Otherwise it just causes minor confusion/inconvenience when dealing with foreign parties/countries.
I'm just saying it's far from an impossibility to implement it