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By that logic, Americans should use km/h instead of mph. Going 0-100 is much better than 0-60. For the same reason you keep telling us why Fahrenheit is so much more intuitive.

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You can go 100 mph

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You can also go 107 Celsius, for a while.

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You guys have a lot of Max 100 zones?

Because in km/h, we got lots of those

Also you calculate acceleration using 0-100 mph?

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I didn’t say it was legal.

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I think the highest speed limit I have seen in America is 85mph, which is around 135km/h. Typical highway speed limits though are 65mph, but everyone goes 5-10 over (105-120km/h).

The nice thing about mph is the whole mile a minute at 60mph. Makes it easy to mentally estimate time of arrival.

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I think the more common measurement is 0-60 mph, so maybe thats closer to 1-100 in kilometers per hour.

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100mph is like, actually kinda spooky though. 100 kmh isn’t spooky. Also 60mph ties nicely into the seconds/minutes/hours time dichotomy, which is fun.

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Actually, it’s the other way around. 100 degrees F weather is really hot. Driving 100 MPH is really fast.

In metric we have 40 degrees C weather is really hot, and driving…uhhh… (gets out a calculator)… 160 km/h is really fast.

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Uhh and 100 ° C is also really hot.

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Plus, 100 km/h is also pretty fast.

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100°C is where you shouldn’t touch it anymore and 100 to 120 km/h is the speed limit about everywhere except germany.

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