Which side of the road to drive?

Re: Which side of the road to drive?

On which side.

The right-side custom seems to be just contrary,French 'revolution',

North American colonies outside Canada 'war of independence'.

It is truly worth a dispassionate thesis, seriously, sincere and honest research on the history would be worth a master's degree that would have a real meaning. We have left-side, but it seems to have been left-side in pre-modern times, too.

That is the way people walk by nature.

I agree, I have never been in many right-side driving places except Korea, it is a little scarey. If I ever want to take a driving holiday in the USA (a serious dream), I want to practise driving on the wrong side of the road in Sth. Korea. I want to see the real USA, not Noo Yawk, not LA, not SF, but the real what do the rich say? Fly-over places. I want to visit those places.

Even in video games, it is sometimes hard to become used to driving on the wrong side.

Re: Which side of the road to drive?

There are exceptions for instance Switzerland is a left side of the road country but Post Buses in mountain areas have Left Hand drive. The reasoning being that its more important for the driver to see the edge of the road (which is probably a precipitous drop) than the middle of the road.

I think Right hand drive correlates with cultural superiority. Thailand, Japan, Malaysia (Austrailai being the exception that proves the rule.). Sweden used to but they got fed up bashing into oncoming Norwegians who forgot which country they were in.

Re: Conformity

and should swap to the right.

Not even possible these days.

For around 40 years now, the junctions of major roads have been very carefully designed to encourage acceleration on joining and deceleration on exit. Likewise, newer roundabouts, gyratory systems and one-way systems are carefully designed to provide good flow and sightlines in one, and only one, direction. Just reversing that little lot, for obvious safety reasons, was costed at many hundreds of billions in the 1990's (last time it was looked at).

That's before you factor in signage and other such changes.

Elephant in the room is the stonking safety issue of having the majority drive on the right in RHD cars for many years.

Note that Japanese cars are innately RHD and yet do not seem to be significantly cheaper than converted German, French et. al. cars.

When you're concentrating and aware of the problem, it tends not to happen.

Particularly in towns and cities, the road layout often makes it difficult to do the wrong thing.

This biggest danger is when you're out in the country and relaxing. Your mental guard goes down and turning at a T junction, before you know it, you're on the "wrong" side.