This Video Explains Why Driving On The Right Side Of The Road Is A Dumb Idea

Have you ever wondered why most of the world drives on the right side of the road? This video explains the reasoning, and it also tells us what happened when Sweden changed from left to right in one day!

Alex Kersten

06 Jul 2016

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Cursed you Alex

I read a book that talked about this, if I remember right…

Not much, everyone drove carefully for a while.

I finally got past the advert… that was a great video and I was only half right.

if you drive in europe you’ll also probably drive a car with steering on the left side but when you go to a country where they drive on the left you’re faced with problem, solution? buy this

Ah damn! You beat me to it. LOL. But seriously, why don’t car makers make cars with central driving position?

Steering column might be a big Problem with central driving pisition in a Front engine car I guess…… But for Alex Article I recon left hand drive countries are way more up in the crash rate because of russia, USA and other not sophisticated countries. Right hand drive countries with a banging crash rate might be India, but nobody there has insurance, so nobody says something to their insurance.

there is a cheaper solution http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/renault_twizy_ev_sg_0.jpg

Or this

Shifter is on the right side though.

Not dumb if you own a horse drawn carriage

So driving on the right is not the right way to do it

I made a post about you

Yeah! I’ve driven a lot in Europe. I’m perfectly used to it but to me the benefits of driving on the left are just so obvious. driving on the right does favor the wrong side. You should have your right eye dominant in all situations and your right hand looking after the wheel. Still….. what can you do and in any case it feels more baddass doing your Vin Diesel impression the right way round.

“Right hand is dominant”
Therefore driving on the right side is better, because you sit on the left side of the car and shift gears with right hand. :)

Shifting lol! I think steering might be the important one.

Exactly, this guy gets it! ^

Exactly!

Na I’m left handed so right hand drive is the best one for me ;)

That statement is invalid since most Americans can’t even drive manuals.

but a human is looking with both eyes on the same point, so it is technical safer to sit on the left, because that means the right eye is more in the middle of the car and can see better. So it is safer to drive on the right side…

But when you’re peeking around stuff don’t you want your right eye in charge? It feels way more natural to me and gives me much better depth perception being right eye dominant.