Still, I guess we aren't going to drop base-10 any time soon, so I believe the US should just accept the "traditional" measurement system as something that used to be very practical, but no longer is due to progress of technology, and switch to SI.
I stand by the assertion that being one of 7 countries that only sometimes uses SI has very real costs. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/
It really is! The number of digits might be a bit much for normal use, so perhaps base-12 is more realistic. If we're going to upend tradition, might as well do it for good, well-founded reasons …
> I stand by the assertion that being one of 7 countries that only sometimes uses SI has very real costs. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbiter/
Of course, that would have been equally a problem had one team been using kilogramme-metre-seconds and the other gramme-metre-seconds, and could have been avoided by standardising on customary or on French Revolutionary units!