In message <[email protected]> [email protected] (Andrew Carson) writes:
> Well from the urban myths I have seen it goes something like this, > > The passing on the left does come form wearing a pistol or a sword. > You naturally lead an attack with your right hand. Hence why you > shake with your right hand to show you are carrying no weapon and > are a friend. > > In Europe only the nobility and army were allowed to carry weapons > and this lead to nobles traveling on the left side of the road. > Peasants, did not count in these days, and ended up on the right > hand side, when they got the opportunity. [snip] In these egalitarian days, neither of the above is appropriate. In order to maximize and balance road usage, surely the sensible thing now would be to have 50% of vehicles (say those with odd numbers) drive on the left, and the other 50% on the right (even numbers). You could make it even more equal if the above was reversed each succeeding day. (Lower usage on Sundays would balance out over a two- week period.) Hope this suggestion will be seen as being as practical as the typical EU Directive - even if slightly OT! Bill -- Bill Lyons - [email protected] / [email protected] ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
