lol, there is no wrong side, just different sides.
Historically, though, people have driven on the left for two thousand years. It was so you could hold the reins in your left hand and keep your right hand free for a shield or sword.
If people leaving these shores decide to drive on a different side of the road, that's fine. If they then try to tell us that we're doing it wrong, that's fine. If they say we're doing it because we're petty, that's fine. We're not the ones making ourselves look bad. :)
If you use the same logic about using your right hand, because most people are right handed, then it definitely makes more sense to drive on the left side of the car though. Your right hand would do the more complicated tasks like shifting and fiddling around with the radio, heat, a/c and all that. One other reason for riding on the left is because of the way you mount a horse, on the left. You could safely mount and dismount without jumping into the middle of the road. So you guys switched that completely. You get into your cars on the right. I think you have to choose, either you have to take all the historic logic behind it or none, you can't have it both ways. You'd have to drive on the left and your cars would have to put the driver on the left too.
I'd say completely the opposite. Given that most people are right-handed they should be using their most able hand to control the car. If it takes an extra second to tune in the correct radio station, no harm done. If there is loss of control of the car, though...
The driver must be on the inside of the road (side closest to oncoming traffic) in order to see past the car in-front to be able to tell if it is safe to overtake.
Right. But if the argument is that it's more correct because it was historically the right way, but ignore the reasons WHY it was historically 'right', then it isn't exactly more 'right' then, is it?
The British defied France by keeping on driving on the left, and are 'proud' of that. It's my contention that they are still just doing it to be contrary and defiant.
Driving on the left makes sense on a horse, and when using a sword, but we drive cars now and don't use swords while driving, so the old reasons why it was correct are no longer correct and in fact exactly the opposite. The controls of cars should be on the driver's right so they can use their dominant hand for the more complicated controls. If the driver sits on the left, with the controls on their right, then it's correct to drive on the right side of the road.
Do the British STILL drive on the wrong side just to be contrary?
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lol, there is no wrong side, just different sides.
Historically, though, people have driven on the left for two thousand years. It was so you could hold the reins in your left hand and keep your right hand free for a shield or sword.
If people leaving these shores decide to drive on a different side of the road, that's fine. If they then try to tell us that we're doing it wrong, that's fine. If they say we're doing it because we're petty, that's fine. We're not the ones making ourselves look bad. :)
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I know the history behind it.
If you use the same logic about using your right hand, because most people are right handed, then it definitely makes more sense to drive on the left side of the car though. Your right hand would do the more complicated tasks like shifting and fiddling around with the radio, heat, a/c and all that. One other reason for riding on the left is because of the way you mount a horse, on the left. You could safely mount and dismount without jumping into the middle of the road. So you guys switched that completely. You get into your cars on the right. I think you have to choose, either you have to take all the historic logic behind it or none, you can't have it both ways. You'd have to drive on the left and your cars would have to put the driver on the left too.
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I'd say completely the opposite. Given that most people are right-handed they should be using their most able hand to control the car. If it takes an extra second to tune in the correct radio station, no harm done. If there is loss of control of the car, though...
The driver must be on the inside of the road (side closest to oncoming traffic) in order to see past the car in-front to be able to tell if it is safe to overtake.
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Right. But if the argument is that it's more correct because it was historically the right way, but ignore the reasons WHY it was historically 'right', then it isn't exactly more 'right' then, is it?
The British defied France by keeping on driving on the left, and are 'proud' of that. It's my contention that they are still just doing it to be contrary and defiant.
Driving on the left makes sense on a horse, and when using a sword, but we drive cars now and don't use swords while driving, so the old reasons why it was correct are no longer correct and in fact exactly the opposite. The controls of cars should be on the driver's right so they can use their dominant hand for the more complicated controls. If the driver sits on the left, with the controls on their right, then it's correct to drive on the right side of the road.