Imagine taking a trip to England, and while driving all speed limit signs are in kilometers and not miles! What will happen? The United States should adopt the metric system for the four following reasons: It’s easier to make conversions, It’s the world standard, people will avoid errors, and better communication. The metric is “any decimal system of units on the metre.”(dictionary.com).
The first reason to switch to the Metric System is, it's easier to make conversions. Therefore, we would not have to convert inches into centimeters or miles into kilometers. However, when converting one kilometer into miles are 0.621371. Would you remember that? No, therefore; the United States needs to adopt the metric system. Nevertheless, the metric system is measured by tens which accordingly is significantly better than having to remember chaotic numbers like 12, 16, 36 and so on. More than likely, someone will say that you can just use google. What if someone is baking and their hands are dirty, and they can't reach their phone? Or, they don’t even
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"95% of the world uses the metric system. All use it but America, Myanmar, and Liberia." (Time). As stated in the paragraph above, it's easier to convert in the metric system, since it's based off tens. One might say why change now after all this time? The United States would start with a new generation and teach them only the metric system and change everything slowly. This is the second reason to switch to the metric system.
The third reason to change to the metric system is, people will avoid more errors. "On September 23, 1999, NASA lost their climate orbiter because they measured in English units and not the metric system."(CNN). This is a major reason to switch to the metric system. Someone might argue they have improved. But that doesn’t mean there won't be any more errors in the future, and if we switched now this wouldn’t happen