On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 00:55:46 +1000, Ben Hood wrote:
>On Friday, Casper Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>
> ] boB Deering wrote:
> ] > I had wondered about this also, but never bothered to ask. Thanks for
> ] > the info. US, wheel on left, clutch (gear) left, brake center,
> ] > accelerator right. I suppose it has something to do with the prevalence
> ] > of right-handedness.
>
>I'm right handed and I find it easier to change gears with my left
>hand. (I have played some arcade games with the gear stick on the
>other side and I found it strange)
It is not at all harder to change gears with the right hand, I do both all the time as
I have a car with the steering wheel left privatly and one with the steering wheel
right at
work. The pedals are in the same positions in both. Overtaking sitting on the right
side is hard and dangerous, as it was sitting on the left side in the good old days.
Sometimes I forget what car I am driving and jump in on the wrong side, finding no
steering wheel or anything else, it is a bit of a silly feeling.
>
>
>Hey, didn't in Belgium or somewhere they was on the left but changed
>to the right, overnight?
>
Sweden? Sep. 3th, 1967. I think some other countries did too. In first class we had to
wait two weeks to learn how to cross the street, they were afraid we would get to
confused learning to look to the right first and then after two weeks to look to the
left first. Maximum speed on all roads was 60 km/h in the beginning, to avoid
accidents,
and there were big signs with a "H" everywhere.
Cars in Sweden always had the steering wheel on the left side, it was considered safer
to be close to the ditch to avoid driving into it.
Per B.
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