Pat Catchpole wrote:
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> >Let me see, It seems like sometime in the '60's maybe the 70's when
> >Japan broke down and converted to driving on the right side of the
> >street. THat's "right" as opposed to "left", not "right" as opposed to
> >"wrong". Although som might argue the latter. Anyway it caused traffic
> >tie-ups and accidents for a great long time before the people got used
> >to the change.
>
> Japan still drives on the left side of the road, although I use the work
>driving
> in a very loose sense (they spend most of their time bumper to bumper in
>slowly
> moving traffic jams). These jams are such a problem in all the major cities
> that convenience stores like 7-11 quite openly sell 'car toilets' (plastic
>bags
> with tubes etc). In-car navigation screens which convert to TV while the cars
> are stationary is also a very popular factory option these days.
> However, one thing that Japan still holds out for though is putting the
> indicators and windscreen wipers on the original side (ie indicators on the
>RHS
> and wiper controls on the LH). This can still be confusing when jumping out
>of
> my modern Euro-coupe into an equally modern Jap-coupe - I look forward to the
> day I can say LBC again.
>
> Pat
With all the mail stating tht Japan still drives on the left side, I
might have been mistaken. Does anybody know for sure? I'm Sure I read
that a long time age. Maybe it was so bad thet they canned the idea and
resumed driving on the wrong side.
Some body help me out hter.
Joe Curry '63 Spit (staying in the garage and out of this dispute)
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