What do you think?

[glojo]

You're meant to hold that up to a mirror.

If you Colonials had only learnt to drive on the correct side of the road then I wouldn't need my blooming mirror!

Yours sincerely
John

 

[Defiant]

We were told we should drive on the right side. Somehow, our mish-mosh of cultural sump drain didn't sufficiently translate that to the correct side.

 

[Dieselman]

Isn't that a strange phenomenum, that some countries chose the left side and some the right. It's always caused issues for car manufacturers so I'm surprised it wasn't sorted out fairly early on.

Apart from the UK, which I believe chose the left side due to knights drawing swords with their right hand, why do countries chose to drive on which side of the road.?

 

[Defiant]

I'm afraid the "reason" has been lost to myth, if in fact there ever was a reason. Many early American automobiles had RHD, and about every third house had some lunatic slapping together a car in the carriage house. I've heard stories of it having to do with driving horse-drawn wagons and how that was done, but even those tales are clouded up.
I can tell you it was great fun when a friend who'd been away to Australia for two years came back, and for a very long time we'd bump one another trying to get in on the "passenger" side of his car. Luckily, it didn't seem to translate to the actual driving.

 

[kbhogalW126]

Isn't that a strange phenomenum, that some countries chose the left side and some the right. It's always caused issues for car manufacturers so I'm surprised it wasn't sorted out fairly early on.

Apart from the UK, which I believe chose the left side due to knights drawing swords with their right hand, why do countries chose to drive on which side of the road.?

Here is a useful site.

KJ