Thousands of people in the UK drive this way when in Europe mainland. Haven't heard news reports of thousands being killed on holiday. Drive within the limitations - if you can't see far enough ahead to overtake, don't.
A friend of mine has moved to France and still insists on driving his RHD car in a LHD country. I've done it many times, with no ill effect.
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I am just curious now. Are England, Canada, Singapore and Australia the only countries in the world with RHD, or are there more? I drove a LHD car in a LHD country, Spain, last year, and I am still getting over it. It wasn't so much RHD vs. LHD, but the tiny narrow streets, the insanely homicidal drivers, and the proliferation of traffic rotaries ("rotondas") that would put my native New England to shame.
Earle
Hey you, we drive on the right side of the road up here in The Great White North too eh!
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06How about domestically produced vehicles? If memory serves, the RHD Wranglers are built in Toledo. Got a link to that law you cite?
Japan.
All driving on the wrong side of the road. lol. Of course, my BSA motorcycle shifts on the right side, not the wrong side as everyone else thinks. There was a time when there was no standard, for example Stearns-Knight in
1912 had the steering wheel on the left, in 1913 on the right, then 1914 back to the left where it stayed.I asked my buddy what he thought about this thread since he drives a RHD Rover Defender in Canada.. He says that it's usually not too bad to pass, he finds he can get a good look up the right side of the highway to see if any cars are coming...but his real answer was "passing in a Land Rover isn't an option"...lol
Jeff
I drive a LHD in a RHD country (South Africa); usually with an SUV (use to drive a Toy Cruiser), you can see right over the other cars; except when behind a truck (what you might call a semi) with the Porsche I fall back, look and put foot... It is much easier to drive on the roads you are use to, but a person used to driving on the RH side, usually find it difficult when it comes to traffic circles to go round the wrong way when travelling in a country where he needs to drive on the LH side.
Dirk matthee
4X4PLAY wrote:Yep, it took me a week in Bermuda to start getting used to those circles.
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I lived in the Bahamas for four years. To help the transition to driving on the left I just taped a 3x5 card on the dash that said "Drive Left". After a week it was second nature and if I did head off the wrong way the locals would wave and yell... and laugh. The rotaries (roundabouts or circuses in the Bahamas) weren't that bad because I grew up in Massachusetts where rotaries were commonplace. Passing with LHD wasn't much of an option because I was driving a Suzuki Samurai. All I could pass were tourists on those rental motor scooters :-)
I grew up in Massachusetts, and one of the benefits of moving to the Rocky Mountains used to be no rotaries. Now idiot city councils everywhere are starting to put them in. I guess they heard, that all the civilized places have them.
Earle
I think they are designed by the idiot Civil Engineers who design parking lots that you cannot easily get in or out of without jumping curbs or going over berms...... ' gotta love that 4WD"
Over here we are used to tiny streets and roundabouts. Same in France (or most of Europe). Only problem I have is when in Germany. If you are at the traffic lights (intersection) and they turn green you can't turn right straight away because pedestrians have right of way. In addition, most streets in towns have a seperate bus lane, and I often turned into that by mistake...
Since I ride my Honda Blackbird through Europe anyway, left or right doesn't matter, except after you pull off a petrol station and ride down the road on the wrong side until you (or someone else) realises...(often my brave pillion)...
So how much do you want for it?
Jas Australia :-)
Liar
ok, I'll bite. What's wrong with roundabouts ?
Dave Milne, Scotland '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ
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