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spartaworld.combat
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The practice of driving on either the left or right side comes from the ancient riding of wagons and horses where the knights favored their right side for fighting with weapons and wagon drivers use the foot brake on the right side. A matter of old choices. In later times more countries converted to right side driving because America exported vehicles with that configuration.
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LIFE OBSERVER
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Let's see ,applepie......we will have trucks driving on one side and cars on the other side?
aa...........where are on coming cars driving??? On a two lane road.
Survivors drive on one? What side does the ambulance drive on? |
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P0150N0U5 F15)-(
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practically it would be impossible to get this as all cars are sold in one layout which cannot be changed(e.g. england left side of road driver on right, france right side of road driver on the left), also each country would want their side to be the standard one and driving with a car in the wrong layout is harder |
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tamazer83
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i think its because the UK started left, and they are always about keeping tradition, so they will keep that, while USA wants right since most people are right handed and almost everything you do in the car is with your right handed |
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alejxa
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USA likes to be different...
why cant we standardize the measuring system...feet..inches..celsius...???
yeah what ^ he said |
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PhotoJim
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It would cost a fortune to standardize it.
Also, it is not that hard to adapt. I drove in the UK for the first time in September. In only a day or two, driving on the left was quite comfortable (which was quite surprising). |
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righteousjohnson
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No, because then everybody would just drive down the middle. |
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psychopiet
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Cars drove on that side where earlier the horse dran carrioages where driving. In Sweden they swapped from left to right in the 70s. This worked fine. |
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Business boy
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thats just the way it is, do you want to drive on the right side???? it would feel awkward |
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auburn
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If you tried to standardize road rules who's rules are you going to go by? I am sure it would cause more problems than it was worth trying to figure out what the standard should be.
Imagine world war 3 starts over who's road rules are the best road rules. The countries all have a summit over it and several leaders end up choking others who cannot agree to their rules.
Best just leave it the way it is |
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shygirl93
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I guess the world is different like that. |
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Loose Change™¢
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Yeah, just as soon as the U.S. finally converts to the metric system. |
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bungee
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do you really want everything to be exactly the same everywere. we are all different |
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duce
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Nope, that is the way it has always been, why change it now |
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Harmony B
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For we will not drive in to other pepole on the
roed |
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BuckeyeMan
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Drive on whatever side of the road you feel like. |
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LzT
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The cost to standardize it would be absolutely incredible especially since they would have to re-educate entire countries filled of drivers. Imagine what would happen if they standardized it so that we drive on the left, the accident rate would skyrocket in the US and commuter traffic which is bad enough in some areas would come to a standstill. It's the same with the metric vs standard system, it would be much easier if that was standardized too. |
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Criss_Mousse
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Not that simple. First of all, we as a planet would have to decide which side of the road we're going to drive on. We can't agree on anything else; how do you think that would work out? Second, in the countries who had to switch the side of the road they drive on, there would be tons of accidents. Have you ever driven in a country where they drive on the "wrong" side of the road? Third, what on earth would we do with all those vehicles that have the steering wheel on the opposite side? |
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applepie
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yeah, to make the transition gradual, we'll first change sides for the cars and when those are used to it, we'll expand it to trucks and other vehicles too. |
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