# How quickly does it generally take for American to get used to driving in UK? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-does-it-generally-take-for-american-to-get-used-to-driving-in-uk/839626 "2019-09-03T14:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-does-it-generally-take-for-american-to-get-used-to-driving-in-uk/839626/61 "2019-09-05T20:19:22Z")
> [@Disheavel](#): > > It is easy as pie to just get off the plane/boat and drive away on the left hand side. Never had a problem with it - in UK, Ireland, NZ, Aus, but did have some more harrowing experiences with it on the narrower less regulated roads in Africa where people drive in the middle until they get close so had to keep chanting to myself, “go left, go left, go left” to make sure I didn’t knee-jerk it to the right. I was in French New Caledonia as a kid, sitting in a bus behind the driver. As we drove along the mountain road, I can see a car coming towards us. Coming closer. _And the bus driver is pulling over to the wrong side of the road._. And he’s going further over, and … fortunately the car coming towards us sees that our driver is an idiot, and passes us _on the wrong side of the road!_ I take a breath and see another car coming towards us. Our driver is veering to the wrong side of the road again! No way, I think, that this car is _also_ going to be smart enough to pull over to the wrong side of the road to let us pass. I’m just resigning myself to my fate when the penny drops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-quickly-does-it-generally-take-for-american-to-get-used-to-driving-in-uk/839626.md?page=3)