As an Australian, where we changed from miles to kilometres in the 1970s, am trying to remember the imperial measurements that Myanmar, Liberia and the US still use.

So an inch is the king's thumb. Three of those make the scrote, or Richard III's scrotum. And 12 inches makes a king's foot (King Alfred's?). And 3 of those make King Henry VIII's armspan, or a yard. And a bunch of those make a mile. How many?

Has any American considered their current imperial measuring system might be a tad feudal, monarchic and random? (Even though I did invent the 'scrote', the rest of the real imperial units are still a sort of weird, inbred form of measurements you'd reckon would be used by men married to their sisters.)

I think miles are used only in the UK, USA, Liberia and Myanmar these days.

Ice had the same trouble with my vehicle at work, but even there where the site speed limit is 30 km/hr, you can notice the difference

I am an engineer at Audi. I've developed the R8, Lamborghini Huracan, Q7, Porsche Cayenne, Lamborghini Usus, Bentley Bentayga and so on.

Yes, those cars feel different but you still realize your speed. You feel at 200km/h as safe as if you are driving 120km/h in a shitty car. But you still understand that you are not going 120km/h.

I once drove a prototype with a setting to MPH. It took me under 5 seconds to realize that. The same was true for a colleague who didn't drive prototypes on a regular basis.

Not clear. To ask a related question: Can New York suspend a New Jersey license?

In this case it is sort of moot because: 1) his car was impounded for 14 days and 2) he still has to wait another 16 days after that before he would be allowed to drive it back to the States.

It’s actually an Alias I created based on a character from this game I’m probably seriously dating myself. But I assume you are reading the Riftwar books the game was based on? I never read them myself

I’ve used it for online games since EverQuest

"i didn't know I couldn't do that."

General motors cars with the computer controlled faux analog gauge packages display only one set of units at a time. You have to push a button on the dashboard to manually switch between mph and kph.

They can refuse to recognize it as a valid license to drive a vehicle.

For nearly all purposes, Canadian and American driver licenses are acceptable in each other’s countries as valid ID and proof of proficient driving ability. Ontario can’t ask New York to suspend his license, but Canada can declare his license as invalid for driving purposes.

If you get a DUI in the US in your personal car and later try to drive professionally (class-B or class-A) into Canada, they will turn you away at the border and it’s a huge process to get them to waive the restriction. Doesn’t matter to them if your license is still valid in the US.

Can Canada suspend a US driver's license in the US?

Yes, Canada uses km/h as the unit of speed.

Yeah, that's like what, 2km/h over the speed limit in my country.

“Think metric”

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I just wouldn’t pay it and wouldn’t go back to Canada

That's the digital speedometer thing. I think every car that I've owned has had an analog speedometer as well that had MPH on top and KPH underneath. I normally use the digital readout for something else.

Love the username! I’m rereading the books now, currently in book 7 of the main series but also working through the other novels and novellas from both authors for the first time.

It's height above the road. 70mph in my semi truck feels slow as molasses in winter

In my Hyundai, not only do feel like I'm wiping my butt on the pavement but 70 feels like I'm flying

How are you supposed to read that when travelling 110mph?

Exactly. It is also an unfamiliar car, on a not-very busy highway.

But 2021 was just yesterday!

125 mph in an Audi RSQ8 feels like 75 mph in a Ford Explosion. The difference is astonishing. I would not put it past someone to not know how fast they are going based on pure judgment, especially if they were in a German automobile

When you screw your driving test so badly that I'm reading about it in the southern US in upstate South Carolina...

I'm suddenly feeling a lot better about my life, poor decisions and all.

The Speedometer from that 70's car only has one set of numbers, and that set of numbers stops at 85. If the sign says 100, how could he know how fast he's going, the speedometer is pegged at 85.