While we're listing weird American units, don't forget the American tendency to measure any distance greater than about a mile in units of "minutes" or "hours", because of our compulsive car culture.
This is how distance is measured in cities with public transit…
“It’s about 30 mins on the subway, etc”
Giving miles for distance between things in dense metros is worthless for people who want to know how long it will take to get somewhere.
What is car centric is giving distances between far apart cities in miles. That’s only meaningful for someone with a car who knows how fast they can drive roughly on the highway.
