Canada's chaotic switch from Miles to Kilometers #cars

Nobody was ready when Canada went from miles to kilometers, because after every speed sign in the country was somehow swapped to kilometers in a single weekend, a bunch of grandpas saw the new limit, 110, and thought the government just raised the speed limit to 110 miles per hour.So they happily floored it.And so did American tourists who didn't realize there was a switch, which now confused the cops, whose radar guns were still calibrated in miles.

And obviously every car's speedometer had to change too, which isn't exactly a quick fix.So gas stations started selling little conversion stickers for your speedometer, except now there were massive lines at gas stations, but for a different reason.When the pumps switched from gallons to liters, the price dropped from a dollar something down to 22 cents, and people just thought gas got really cheap.But none of that compares to what happened a few years later, when a bunch of people were having a nice Saturday at a racetrack on an old airstrip, because suddenly a full -size Air Canada Boeing landed right next to them, after a pounds versus kilograms mix -up left it with no fuel.