Yes as so does most of the world. Me being an american I'm usually accustomed to using the standard system but I do understand and use the metric system. I just thought they used cubic meters.
Cubic meters would be much too big to be useful in measuring volume in a car. Cubic cm would obviously be too small. The only thing really that is in between and suitable is the L (=1000 mL=1000cc). We already use it to measure engine size. Why not for interior volume, too?
Because liters are usually applied where you use liquids and meters would work just fine. For example where I could say a car has 16 cubic feet of trunk space, I could also say a car has around 5 cubic meters of space. The whole point is that I have not heard liters used before.
@quatlen Like ricepaddy69 said, the cubic metre is just a bit big, (1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet...) and the cubic centimetre is a bit small. In between, there's the cubic decimetre, which is conveniently exactly the same size as a litre, which is much less of a mouthful. That's why it gets used.
Is there any review which has a proper title?
BlazerLT 1 year ago
I don't understand why liters was used to measure the trunk.
quatlen 1 year ago
It's a Canadian channel, Canada uses the metric system...
AWDfreak 1 year ago
Yes as so does most of the world. Me being an american I'm usually accustomed to using the standard system but I do understand and use the metric system. I just thought they used cubic meters.
quatlen 1 year ago
Cubic meters would be much too big to be useful in measuring volume in a car. Cubic cm would obviously be too small. The only thing really that is in between and suitable is the L (=1000 mL=1000cc). We already use it to measure engine size. Why not for interior volume, too?
ricepaddy69 1 year ago
Because liters are usually applied where you use liquids and meters would work just fine. For example where I could say a car has 16 cubic feet of trunk space, I could also say a car has around 5 cubic meters of space. The whole point is that I have not heard liters used before.
quatlen 1 year ago
@quatlen Like ricepaddy69 said, the cubic metre is just a bit big, (1 cubic metre is just over 35 cubic feet...) and the cubic centimetre is a bit small. In between, there's the cubic decimetre, which is conveniently exactly the same size as a litre, which is much less of a mouthful. That's why it gets used.
gogmorgoaway 1 year ago
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Colleptic 1 year ago