On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:07:44PM +0000, Richard Smedley wrote: > > Some 50 countries drive on the right, including iirc Japan and most of the > Middle East
Not in here they don't (.il), nor in any of the neighboring countries. Most of the left hand side driving countries are third-world ex-British colonies, FWIW. /All/ of the developed countries that drive on the left[1] are actually islands (or continets, if they're Australia). "Europe cut off", indeed... I seem to recall that in Antarctica, they have an awful lot of road accidents (relatively, of course) where the roads cross between areas belonging to countries of opposite driving directions. [1] UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Hong Kong, Malta, Singapore. Most of the left hand side driving third world countries seem to be islands too, with the notable exception of the countries that used to be part of the British Empire's Eastern India.
