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Yes, if the Americans drive on the right side, we should too.
Not sure if your being sarcastic or not but most of Canada was driving on the right before the Americans.
From wickapedia - All the formerly British, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas originally kept to the left, and French colonies kept to the right. The first keep-right law in the United States was passed in 1792 and applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. New York formalised right-hand traffic in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813. By the time the United States annexed French, Spanish, Russian and Hawaiian territories, the keep-right rule already applied there. Today, all US states and territories except the US Virgin Islands drive on the right. The Virgin Islands drove on the left when the United States purchased the former Danish West Indies from Denmark in 1917. Although Denmark drove and still drives on the right, the Danish West Indies drove on the left because, some say, the majority of the European aristocracy living there were British; but there is also a claim the practice of left-side drive was due to the first cars being RHD vehicles imported from Barbados, then still a British colony.[citation needed]
If you read the above you can see that in the 1700s the 13 Americans Colonies, along with the Maritimes (Nova Scotia) as British colonies were all driving on the LEFT while the former New France was already driving on the RIGHT. After Independence, the States gradually changed over. So it was the Americans who changed to the right, not the Canadians (French Canadians anyway) who changed.
Not sure if your being sarcastic or not but most of Canada was driving on the right before the Americans.
From wickapedia - All the formerly British, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas originally kept to the left, and French colonies kept to the right. The first keep-right law in the United States was passed in 1792 and applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. New York formalised right-hand traffic in 1804 and New Jersey in 1813. By the time the United States annexed French, Spanish, Russian and Hawaiian territories, the keep-right rule already applied there. Today, all US states and territories except the US Virgin Islands drive on the right. The Virgin Islands drove on the left when the United States purchased the former Danish West Indies from Denmark in 1917. Although Denmark drove and still drives on the right, the Danish West Indies drove on the left because, some say, the majority of the European aristocracy living there were British; but there is also a claim the practice of left-side drive was due to the first cars being RHD vehicles imported from Barbados, then still a British colony.[citation needed]
If you read the above you can see that in the 1700s the 13 Americans Colonies, along with the Maritimes (Nova Scotia) as British colonies were all driving on the LEFT while the former New France was already driving on the RIGHT. After Independence, the States gradually changed over. So it was the Americans who changed to the right, not the Canadians (French Canadians anyway) who changed.
yes, maybe we should switch back to the imperial system too, since naturally the US isn't going to.
Converting distance, weights and measures is not the same thing as driving. To have to switch sides, with the millions of cars and trucks crossing the border, would be ridiculous.
Converting distance, weights and measures is not the same thing as driving. To have to switch sides, with the millions of cars and trucks crossing the border, would be ridiculous.
Converting distance, weights and measures is not the same thing as driving. To have to switch sides, with the millions of cars and trucks crossing the border, would be ridiculous.
yep, just like the British never know how to drive in France or Germany once they cross the border
Actually for this very moment, two friends of mine are driving in South Africa, and they seem to be completely fine. You get used to it after a matter of 15 minutes.
yep, just like the British never know how to drive in France or Germany once they cross the border Actually for this very moment, two friends of mine are driving in South Africa, and they seem to be completely fine. You get used to it after a matter of 15 minutes.
That's different. Your friends are renting cars that are made specifically to drive on the left side.
If you were to drive in a Left-hand drive car (made the drive on the right) on the left side, there is going to be visibility issues since it will be more difficult to see oncoming traffic.
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Originally Posted by botticelli
plenty
There's hardly any traffic between those countries.
yep, just like the British never know how to drive in France or Germany once they cross the border
Actually for this very moment, two friends of mine are driving in South Africa, and they seem to be completely fine. You get used to it after a matter of 15 minutes.
Actually they don't. They scare the heck out of me, I doubt the numbers of vehicles crossing the channel equal the amount of vehicles crossing the Canadian/US border.
I've driven on the left in the UK and the dangerous part about someone thinking they get used to it in 15 minutes, is that they tend to let their guard down.
You may look the wrong way in the rear view mirror, minor, or pull out of a driveway onto a " dual carriageway " and pull into the wrong lane, could be major.
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