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[–] Ultraviolet 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Miles or kilometers per hour makes sense in the context of travel, you can very easily estimate how long it's going to take to get somewhere.

[–] calcopiritus 3 points 10 months ago

Ironically, km/h is better for estimation because hours are 3600 seconds. If an hour were 1000 seconds or whatever, it would barely take more effort to calculate with m/s

[–] pHr34kY 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was thinking about estimating stopping distances and reaction times. The number of metres you cover every second becomes important then.