I drive a lot in china
I drive a lot in china
Not sure that's relevant. China and increasingly Hong Kong just drive wherever the hell they want. Every side is my side.
I've live and driven in both lhd and rhd card...I've even driven lhd in rhd countries and vice versa...perfectly at ease driving either...but, I've always thought it makes more sense to have your right hand on the steering wheel while changing year...given most peeps. are right handed...
Agreed. Learned to drive LHD looonng ago, then got used to RHD in Hong Kong...hated LHD because I had to take my right hand off the wheel to change gears.
Here my right hand's on the wheel, left on the shifter or resting on the armrest, perfectly natural and comfortable. LHD my left arm is smushed into the door.
Personally I don't mind either side, but would prefer Hong Kong going left hand drive as it opens up shit loads bigger car choice and would lower the cost of cars for the average car buyer.
Most car manufacturers see RHD markets as an expensive if not annoying pain in the arse.
Maybe one day the world will choose a standard side and just be done with it.
I really believe that there are plans to change HK to right hand drive, based upon the design of new highways in the New Territories. E.g. the offramps are counterintuitive, but make sense from the the other direction (if the drive direction is switched). Like you keep RIGHT and hug the insidemost lane to turn left off the highway in some places. Weird.
Okinawa was switched from right hand to left hand drive when they joined Japan in the 70s and there was no need to do that as they are a small island. Absolute mayhem on that day.