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We DID use to drive on the left. (And we did have swords too. How did they manage to have duels? With STICKS? lol) Apparently in the late 1700s men started driving wagon loads of goods, they sat on a horse at the back left and needed to see over to the right.
I remember reading that the old covered wagons that carried the settlers west across the country, had the brake handle on the left side of the buckboard seat, so the guy driving the horses sat on the left side of the buckboard, in order to apply the brake, or release it.
It would seem natural then, that when the automobile came along, the driver would sit on the left side of the car, and drive on the right.
I have a feeling that I may have mentioned this before, but 25 or more years ago I flew from NYC to Nassau, Bahamas, I picked up a rental car, an old Chevy, LHD, pulled out of the parking lot, went naturally to the right hand side of the road, and almost went deaf with the cacophony of horns, and other drivers shouting at me for being on the "wrong" side of the road.
It's doable in a RHD car but I just wish things got sorted out in the early days of motorised transport.
Yes, once they put that gearstick in the middle it would have made so much sense for them to see you need your strong dextrous right hand on the wheel to steer while the weaker deals with changing gears. But I suppose cars went so slowly and were so much less powerful it didn't occur to them to doi t, and now it's too late.
Don`t ever hire a car from Pisa, and then after your Italian holiday try and find the car drop off at Pisa,( near the airport but not part of it) nightmare. Scraped all the wheel trims but the checker amazingly didn`t say a word!! Go to Florence airport instead.
Don`t ever hire a car from Pisa, and then after your Italian holiday try and find the car drop off at Pisa,( near the airport but not part of it) nightmare. Scraped all the wheel trims but the checker amazingly didn`t say a word!! Go to Florence airport instead.
Try Limoges airport where the car had a gouged in sill!
LOL I can relate. I took the wrong turning at Pisa airport and rather than take the Green road to Lucca, went right to Florence and then across country to Bagni da Lucca, my girlfriend was not impressed and my ego shrank. I do like trains
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