Note that the article states that many countries allow use of both left-hand-drive and right-hand-drive vehicles on their roadways, which contradicts your earlier blanket statement that you have to change vehicles when at a border between a left-hand-traffic country and a right-hand-traffic country.
On March 21, 2014 4:09:59 PM CDT, Fernando Trebien <[email protected]> wrote: > Read this: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Driver_seating_position > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Restrictions_on_wrong-hand_drive_vehicles > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Fernando Trebien > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> A change of driver > >> side requires either a change of vehicle or some special vehicle > that > >> can drive on both sides. In the case of your city, driving side > >> changes, but driver side doesn't. You could include that in the > >> description of "opposite". > > > > > > I wish this urban legend would die already, because I know of no > place on > > the planet this is actually true. If this were actually true, the > US Postal > > Service would have all of 3 vehicles in their multimillion-vehicle > fleet > > with the steering wheel on the "legal" side, and an ever growing > population > > of kei cars imported from Japan registered in Oklahoma would be > "banned" > > (they are in most states because Japan's domestic vehicles don't > meet crash > > standards in most states, whereas Oklahoma places a stronger > emphasis on > > driver ability than vehicle crash-worthiness than most states). The > seating > > position of the driver is merely a feature of convenience and > largely up to > > driver preference. Most drivers prefer left hand drive in > keep-right > > countries, and right hand drive in keep-left countries because it > greatly > > increases visibility when overtaking. Having driven RHS vehicles in > North > > America, I can safely say it's not impossible, but you have to > really > > increase your run-up length to pass safely just because of the > sightline > > when looking to overtake. Drivers who have to reach for curbside > objects a > > lot tend to prefer RHS vehicles because they don't have to step in > traffic > > or reach across the vehicle to, say, collect garbage, deliver mail, > restripe > > a curb, deliver a package, etc. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
