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- lfyost1
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I enjoy seeing the great photos associated with the various threads. It appears a strong majority of forum members are based in the UK based on the cockpit orientation. I have to say I'm terribly impressed with your ability to do the shifting with your left hands. I'd have no gearbox remaining if that task was my fate.
I've visited the UK twice and the Irish Republic once, renting vehicles each time and managed only by cross arm driving.
Cudos to the deserving!
Layne
I've visited the UK twice and the Irish Republic once, renting vehicles each time and managed only by cross arm driving.
Cudos to the deserving!
Layne
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It is how you are taught so it is second nature to us over here
I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
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Apart from when you come out the petrol station and 99% of the time go to the wrong side of the car to drive awayOle gits rule wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:20 pm I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
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Ive been known to violently punch the doorcard when driving a left hooker
But you do get used to it quite quickly. You do need to watch for cars where they swap the pedals round too...
But you do get used to it quite quickly. You do need to watch for cars where they swap the pedals round too...
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Common issue sadly…Argyll Andy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:22 pmApart from when you come out the petrol station and 99% of the time go to the wrong side of the car to drive awayOle gits rule wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:20 pm I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
Work colleague was working at US operation …pulled out of gas (fuel) station at night onto a deserted road..in the subsequent head on crash his wife who was in the car lost her right arm..severed completely in the crash..
Down in Suffolk US airforce based wife pulled out of petrol station on A14 dual carriageway at night..travelled 8 miles on the wrong carriageway then met lorry head on..strangely she lost that argument..
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I've never understood why 3/4 of the world drive on the right and the rest on the left. Surely sometime in the past, when there were only a few vehicles on the road, some people should have had a conversation and agreed on one side or the other globally (as long as was the left obviously). It must be a PITA for manufacturers if nothing else.
Wasn't it Sweden who changed from the left to the right some time ago? I bet that was fun for a while.
Wasn't it Sweden who changed from the left to the right some time ago? I bet that was fun for a while.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
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Actually years ago my mate lived in Germany and came home and pulled out from where I lived on to the wrong side of the road and in 20 years only once pulled out of a petrol station on the wrong side on the road.Argyll Andy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:22 pmApart from when you come out the petrol station and 99% of the time go to the wrong side of the car to drive awayOle gits rule wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:20 pm I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
Never had much of an issue otherwise
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I don't really have an issue when driving a left hooker
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Apart from when you come out the petrol station and 99% of the time go to the wrong side of the car to drive away
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Common issue sadly…
Work colleague was working at US operation …pulled out of gas (fuel) station at night onto a deserted road..in the subsequent head on crash his wife who was in the car lost her right arm..severed completely in the crash..
Down in Suffolk US airforce based wife pulled out of petrol station on A14 dual carriageway at night..travelled 8 miles on the wrong carriageway then met lorry head on..strangely she lost that argument..
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Not nice when that happens at all - its an instinctive reaction and no one can be blamed when it happens
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Apart from when you come out the petrol station and 99% of the time go to the wrong side of the car to drive away
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Common issue sadly…
Work colleague was working at US operation …pulled out of gas (fuel) station at night onto a deserted road..in the subsequent head on crash his wife who was in the car lost her right arm..severed completely in the crash..
Down in Suffolk US airforce based wife pulled out of petrol station on A14 dual carriageway at night..travelled 8 miles on the wrong carriageway then met lorry head on..strangely she lost that argument..
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Not nice when that happens at all - its an instinctive reaction and no one can be blamed when it happens
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It was indeed - back in the 60's and I could just imagine the fun that was had for the next few monthsPondrew wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:41 pm I've never understood why 3/4 of the world drive on the right and the rest on the left. Surely sometime in the past, when there were only a few vehicles on the road, some people should have had a conversation and agreed on one side or the other globally (as long as was the left obviously). It must be a PITA for manufacturers if nothing else.
Wasn't it Sweden who changed from the left to the right some time ago? I bet that was fun for a while.
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Spent a lot of time in US and with American colleagues here in the UK- explaining roundabouts to them was brilliant
I used to make up reasons to go to Milton Keynes with them driving just for the fun of it
Still not sorry!
I used to make up reasons to go to Milton Keynes with them driving just for the fun of it
Still not sorry!
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Maybe that's why their cars have always been built to be strong in an accident (necessity, mother of invention and all that)Ole gits rule wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:26 pmIt was indeed - back in the 60's and I could just imagine the fun that was had for the next few monthsPondrew wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:41 pm I've never understood why 3/4 of the world drive on the right and the rest on the left. Surely sometime in the past, when there were only a few vehicles on the road, some people should have had a conversation and agreed on one side or the other globally (as long as was the left obviously). It must be a PITA for manufacturers if nothing else.
Wasn't it Sweden who changed from the left to the right some time ago? I bet that was fun for a while.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
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F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
- buzyg
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Apparently the Romans and others set the world to walking on the left, as they could draw their swords to defend themselves, with their right hands. Then some Frenchie, named Napoleon, made all his soldiers and subjects use the other side of the road. As he was a lefty and could defend himself better with his left hand. From that point on Europeans travelled on the right. Or so the story goes.Pondrew wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:41 pm I've never understood why 3/4 of the world drive on the right and the rest on the left. Surely sometime in the past, when there were only a few vehicles on the road, some people should have had a conversation and agreed on one side or the other globally (as long as was the left obviously). It must be a PITA for manufacturers if nothing else.
Wasn't it Sweden who changed from the left to the right some time ago? I bet that was fun for a while.
Personally I just get in and drive on the other side where required. Never given it much thought. Now speaking French, that I never could understand.
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Seeing as I am left-handed, I shall start driving on the right from tomorrow then. I'll let you know how it goes (either from hospital or a police cell).buzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:03 pm pparently the Romans and others set the world to walking on the left, as they could draw their swords to defend themselves, with their right hands. Then some Frenchie, named Napoleon, made all his soldiers and subjects use the other side of the road. As he was a lefty and could defend himself better with his left hand. From that point on Europeans travelled on the right. Or so the story goes.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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I pulled out of a ‘gas station’ in LA and stopped at a set of traffic lights about 20m away. It was only when the lights changed and four lanes of cars facing me pulled away did I realise I was in the wrong side of the road
15 years later I drove 2000 miles around Europe in my Zed without a single issue until I exited the ferry port in Dover on the way back to London and went the wrong way around a roundabout.
15 years later I drove 2000 miles around Europe in my Zed without a single issue until I exited the ferry port in Dover on the way back to London and went the wrong way around a roundabout.
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It's worse from the passenger seat. I foolishly let an American engineer, drive us from Edinburgh air port to Rosyth once. After he drove the wrong way around a round about, I took possession of the hire car keys for the rest of the trip.BMWZ4MC wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 7:05 am I pulled out of a ‘gas station’ in LA and stopped at a set of traffic lights about 20m away. It was only when the lights changed and four lanes of cars facing me pulled away did I realise I was in the wrong side of the road
15 years later I drove 2000 miles around Europe in my Zed without a single issue until I exited the ferry port in Dover on the way back to London and went the wrong way around a roundabout.