The World IS A Stage...live with it!
August 5th 2009 22:38
In the category of All The World's A Stage, don't dish it out if you can't take it. In the US we are trying to go metric to appease the rest of the metric world. The world, it seems, can dish it out but can't take it!
Doing 100 km. in the States won't get you a ticket on most US interstates because kilometers tend to run much slower than miles-per-hour. In Canada doing 100 miles per hour in a marked 100 speed limit may land you a ticket big time!
Still it is a double-standard because Canada doesn't post the mph as opposed to the kph. Yes we do on certain US interstates in the US! So the US is trying to comply to this metric crap law that is useless to us!
I agree that US citizens should realize this metric law when in Canada, BUT Canadians are given leniency in the US. It was once acceptable to drive over 100 mph on the 401 in Canada,and I should know as an American who was passed doing 80 mph. It is obvious that this is a political ploy!
Doing 100 km. in the States won't get you a ticket on most US interstates because kilometers tend to run much slower than miles-per-hour. In Canada doing 100 miles per hour in a marked 100 speed limit may land you a ticket big time!
Still it is a double-standard because Canada doesn't post the mph as opposed to the kph. Yes we do on certain US interstates in the US! So the US is trying to comply to this metric crap law that is useless to us!
I agree that US citizens should realize this metric law when in Canada, BUT Canadians are given leniency in the US. It was once acceptable to drive over 100 mph on the 401 in Canada,and I should know as an American who was passed doing 80 mph. It is obvious that this is a political ploy!
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