I Hate Metric

It could be that Europeans invented the system originally but gave it up when Metric came into vogue. Since the US is still using this system (although in a slightly modified form), it's sort of natural to refer to it as Imperial. Plus, with Canada being an ex-Commonwealth country, we still have many Britain-isms in our language that are hard to give up.

Besides, doesn't SAE stand for Society of Automotive Engineers? I'm not sure how this would relate to a measuring system devised 100 years before the automobile made its debut, but I realize that's what it's referred to as. Can anyone expand on this?