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Ok, the US uses Silly units which we mostly inherited from the English.

rickman wrote on 9/9/2017 6:05 PM:

Actually there are times when the US gallon is the same as an English gallon.

The US gallon is the result of the British taxes on the US. They overly taxed us without allowing us any representation in the government so we rebelled. At that time the gallon was defined by the weight of what was being measured. There was a corn gallon, a wheat gallon, a beer gallon ect. In 1820 England decided to abandon the many gallon approach and go with a

Good thing we didn't adopt the Imperial gallon, it keeps changing. It was changed as late as 1985. What good is a standard that changes?

I didn't say they aren't here, I remember that not long ago they weren't in the US. Are they compulsory in the back seats too?

So that's a no then. How backwards. They've been compulsory here for quite a while with no silly age restriction complications (as well as children needing to be in approved 'car seat' survival cells to a certain age).

(BTW if you were smart you'd be a smart arse. You should have included 'rear seats' in the search parameters. I'll go back to my policy of not clicking obfuscated URLs - which for some odd reason I didn't think would be needed here.)

Not sure what you are reading. Traffic laws are state issues in the US although there is a certain amount of "coordination" by the Federal government. I don't know of any states which doesn't require seat belts to be worn by everyone in a vehicle. I'm not familiar with *all* of the 50 states. What did you find that says otherwise?

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Bigoted trolls will always be around. Just avoid them. Just ignore them.

Some pretty serious issues here if this is to be enforced.

a) Automakers must be then, 100% liable *forever* for the functionality of the seat belts and safety devices. So, latches that fail, belts that wear a nd break, and airbags that do not go off - none of which are user-serviceab le - must fall back on the manufacturer. b) Seat belt and safety device deployment must then be recorded in the auto motive 'brain' such that this will indicate at the crash-investigation stag e. Similar to an aircraft flight data recorder. Many of these even now reco rd speed and other conditions if there is a crash, some will even notify em ergency services.

Which, of course, will naturally lead to insurance companies demanding 'goo d driver' monitors on their insured that continuously relay speed/braking/t iming/and much more to the company so that they may determine 'risk' based on actual driving behavior. Some offer this option right now.

Is that what you really want?

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

A US gallon is smaller than an Imperial gallon because the US pint has the wrong number of fluid ounces (16 instead of 20).

When it comes to tools such as wrenches, I see the term "Standard" often used in the USA -- maybe just short for the whole "SAE" term, the last two of whose letters I don't recall the meaning.

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No, it isn't. Even if we stick to the undersized US pints of 16 fl.oz. instead of 20 fl. oz., the weight of something with a volume of one pint varies considerably depending on what the substance is. Even if we're talking about cooking and trying to convert recipes with quantities by weight to cup measurements, a cup of sugar and a cup of flour probably will not weigh the same, and the weight of the flour will depend on how densely it's packed -- could be as little as 5 oz. rather than the 8 oz. that the "pint's a pound the world around" formula indicates.

Perce

You have eyes, but can not see.

At school I was taught 'A pint of water weighs a pound-and-a-quarter'. Then again that was in England.