Steering wheel on the wrong side

I hope no one assumes, based on jz78817’s post, that all neighborhoods with curbline delivery are served by rural route contractors. The vast majority are served by regular carriers. Sometime in the 1960s or 70s, USPS began declining to serve new neighborhoods with park-and-loop delivery to the house. These days, they even require cluster boxes wherever they can.

NSW , and I think Australia, because its Australian Design Rules… ADR … that vehicles new and imported vehicles have to meet, won’t allow the use of a wrong sided passenger vehicle… unless its classic, something like 40 years old or older…

I think that was meant to teach you about the clues that would tell you that is definitely just a joke… Well you also didnt question Ireland changing… I think its an irish joke… What happened to the irish match factory ? They tested every one.

But then he gave more clues, which distracted you. How can he have the content of an unpublished document ? And wouldnt a reason its not published be that its not happening ?

But suppose they were to change with a safer stratagy in terms of road crashed… You thought the IRA were bad… the anti-change crowd would be worse.

Pakistan. We are a RHD country like all other normal, civilised people. :smiley:
LHD cars are exclusively imported, or classic.
I have driven LHD/RHD, Left Side/Right Side in all combos and while actually driving its not THAT bad, just requires some mindfulness.

When being a passenger OTH, well firstly there is just something off about sitting on the frongt right side of a car and not having a steering wheel in front of you.

Secondly, if you are a judgemental, nervous passenger (e.g moi) then the driver appear makes too many wrong turns, until you realise that the turn was actually right.

In fact, the neighborhood I moved to a year ago has cluster mailboxes.

In Queensland (a state of Australia) you cannot register a left-hand drive car that’s less than 30 years old. The two exceptions are for people bringing their cars in on holiday (which is almost literally no-one, since Australia’s an island continent) and overseas defence personnel on temporary deployment/secondment.

IIRC the Northern Territory is the only place in Australia where you can register a new(ish) LHD vehicle - my understanding is the other states/territories only allow it for classic cars and a handful of one-off exemptions (test vehicles or the like, I believe).

Thailand drives on the left. Cambodia used to drive on the left, but in a bid to cut down on the number of stolen cars being taken into Cambodia from Thailand, the government there decreed a switch to right-side driving. I think that was in the 1990s. But who can afford to buy a new car in Cambodia? So now you have all these right-hand drive cars plying the right side of the roads. Once we hired a taxi to drive us from Poipet, on the border with Thailand, to Siem Reap, near Angkor Wat. Passing was pretty hairy, I’ll tell ya, especially when we were behind a large vehicle of some sort. The driver would edge over until he was able to see if anything was coming! It was a 2-1/2 ride, and after Sisophon, about halfway, the “highway” was dirt (I think it’s all paved now), so the dust being kicked up made it even harder to see.

We were just there again this past July. Flew to Siem Reap this time, but Ive heard that “highway” has been paved all the way now. And we noticed a lot more right-hand-drive vehicles, although the left-hand drives were still numerous.

Aaaand, I just screwed that up. I meant that the other way around. We noticed a lot more left-hand-drive vehicles in July, although the right-hand drives were still numerous. If you drive on the right side of the road, then left-hand-drive vehicles are the norm and vice versa. I’m always mixing that up.

I’m from the UK and have driven a British car in France a number of times, I find just staying close to the kerb (even going round roundabouts if the ‘outside’ lane is the correct one) ensures I’m very unlikely to drive too close to oncoming traffic. Once I turned right in my RHD car in Calais but temporarily forgot and proceeded down the quiet road on the left. When another car was approaching me I figured something was up, then came to my senses, slowed down, and got on the right (metaphorical and literal) side of the road. The other driver had slowed as soon as they saw me, which I expect is because those living there are used to British drivers being stupid.

I’ve driven LHD cars on the right in a few countries and that’s a little easier, although I still sometimes use the wrong arm to try to change gear.

That used to be the case, because of their expensive inspections. The first safety inspection was three years after the car was purchased, then every two years until the tenth year when it became annual. That changed to every two years.

However, when we left Japan, our 14-year-old Nissan Cube didn’t get much money, even with low mileage.

I’ve spent as many almost as many years driving on the left as on the right. It’s almost strange to be here in Taiwan where they drive on the right. I had a LHD in Japan for while. You don’t do as much passing there so it didn’t seem to bother me so much.

All of the cars I drove in Japan were automatics. It was a bit strange driving in the UK, with a manual.

Whenever I’d go back to the States, my family would laugh at me for the first couple of days as I would turn on the wipers every time I went to make a turn.

Heh. My uncle was here welding the Fukushima nuclear power plant way way back in the day, and when they made that same mistake here, they called that maneuver “the gaijin wave.” :smiley:

Anyone living near a ferry port will recognise that. My daughter lives in Portsmouth, England, and every day there are half a dozen ferries disgorging tourists from France.

The ones most likely to go wrong; wrong way round a roundabout or as above in reverse - turn right and carry on on the right - are English holidaymakers returning from a two week stint on the wrong side of the road.