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[SlvrCelica09]

if in america drivers on the right side have right of way.. why do we drive on the left side?

[Nial]

Driving on the Left stems from times when people rode horses as the main form of transport....it meant that when you met someone on the road you could easily shake hands with them.

Places where "shaking hands" wasnt used as a greeting didnt need to consider this.....places like the US (& most other former UK colonies) etc drive on the right as a snub to the UK, kind of like a driving **** you . I believe France etc adopted this aswell as the UK and France have been enemies for much of History and they hated the UK.....the rest of europe followed France for ease of driving around mainland Europe.

Had the English not been such a bunch of narrow minded dictators in the past I think most of the world would drive on the left.

Maybe people in Maryland didnt hate the English as much as everyone else does.

This post has been edited by Nial: Aug 24, 2009 - 7:10 AM

[Random_Stranger]

Driving on the Left stems from times when people rode horses as the main form of transport....it meant that when you met someone on the road you could easily shake hands with them.

Places where "shaking hands" wasnt used as a greeting didnt need to consider this.....places like the US (& most other former UK colonies) etc drive on the right as a snub to the UK, kind of like a driving **** you . I believe France etc adopted this aswell as the UK and France have been enemies for much of History and they hated the UK.....the rest of europe followed France for ease of driving around mainland Europe.

Had the English not been such a bunch of narrow minded dictators in the past I think most of the world would drive on the left.

Maybe people in Maryland didnt hate the English as much as everyone else does.

Kind of like how the USA doesn't use the Metric System! (I think they did it on purpose) LOL

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Aug 24, 2009 - 8:04 AM

[Nial]

Kind of like how the USA doesn't use the Metric System! (I think they did it on purpose) LOL

The UK we use both metric and imperial all the time.....we use MPH and MPG...miles on our road signs (all imperial measurements) yet we sell petrol by the litre, food in grams.....we use meters/cm and yards/feet and inches...sometimes in the same sentence. not only that but we use KG and Lbs depending on what you buy unless its very heavy where we use mostly tons...or tonnes depending on where in the country you are or what it is....beer comes by the pint, yet soda is sold by the litre!!!!!...boost is measured by bar or KG/nm2...tyres by PSI.

[Random_Stranger]

Kind of like how the USA doesn't use the Metric System! (I think they did it on purpose) LOL

The UK we use both metric and imperial all the time.....we use MPH and MPG...miles on our road signs (all imperial measurements) yet we sell petrol by the litre, food in grams.....we use meters/cm and yards/feet and inches...sometimes in the same sentence. not only that but we use KG and Lbs depending on what you buy unless its very heavy where we use mostly tons...or tonnes depending on where in the country you are or what it is....beer comes by the pint, yet soda is sold by the litre!!!!!...boost is measured by bar or KG/nm2...tyres by PSI.

That's really interesting to know Nial. Hey, when is the deadline for the photos again? Did they start sending you proper photos?