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It is custom to pass on the right, your sword is carried on your left hip and held with your right hand so when trouble arises you need to be able to defend yourself.
An ancient custom used by the Romans and the Greeks .... why should we change now ?
The question might be reversed and asked since so many were already driving on the left passing on the right why did America have to be different ?
Nowadays we don't have swords anymore, but we have gear sticks
Still, I have to admit driving on the left is nice for smokers driving automatic cars.
Although the US Virgin Islands drive on the left, they use American-style cars with the driver on the left side of the car.
I was told prior to renting a jeep in St. Croix to "keep your ass to the grass". Alluding to driving on the left in a left drive vehicle. It became my mantra while I was there.
I was told prior to renting a jeep in St. Croix to "keep your ass to the grass". Alluding to driving on the left in a left drive vehicle. It became my mantra while I was there.
The only problem is when you want to pass/overtake a car and there is nobody in the front passenger seat to be your eyes. My father drove for 2 years in England with a car that he brought from the USA when I was a child. So I remember when my mother wasn't with us being my father's eyes (in the front passenger seat) to tell him if the road was clear and he could pass/overtake the slow car in front of us.
That explains it, then. Americans have never carried swords.
How about that little bit of unpleasantness between 1861 and 1865?
The cavalry all wore sabres, (you may say sabers, but in England it's sabres), but the story goes that the Confederates were reluctant to use them in action, preferring hand-guns, no idea if that's true.
For the C.S.A. there were cavalry commanders like J.E.B. Stuart, Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Mosby, and Wade Hampton, who apparently shot three Federal troopers from their horses at Gettysburg, and ran another through with his sabre.
For the Union, there was Phil Sheridan, George A. Custer, George Stoneman, and John Buford, one of the first Federal generals to arrive in Gettysburg, and fight a delaying action until Union reinforcements arrived.
The law started in Scotland in the 1700s.... countries who do.
Its also known that roman soldiers always marched on the left for sword fighting purposes.
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Add Maldives also in the list. They drive on the left side.
what would be the infrastructure costs for the UK to switch?
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