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From rob thomas <rob at thomasr.greatxscape.net>
To: spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: November 15, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: driving on wrong side (minor LBC + guns)
>Why does the US/Can/Europe etc drive on the wrong side?
We drive on the 'right' side ... :)
>Has any non-Brit tried a RHD car with favourable results?
I find it pleasurable, although my first drive was frustrating when I got
confused as I got cut off by a taxi. I think that I tried to put my hand
through the door to downshift.
Unlike Frank, I have never had to figure out how to pass someone.
What I find difficult, is trying to turn left at an intersection in busy
traffic, because I can't see the oncoming traffic when someone coming from
the opposite direction is also waiting to turn left.
Drive throughs have not posed a problem as I have long arms and never have
the top on ( the car ). ( It would be nice to have the bottom on the car
again. )
Pulling out of a parking spot at the side of the street isn't a huge
obstacle as the car is so small that a combination of leaning over and using
the mirror works.
And I have shared a similar experience with the others here in that my then
6 year old daughter used to pretend to be driving on her way to school.
> Ever tried eating with
>the knife and fork in the wrong hands?
You mean someone else has them? :)
Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
'65 RHD BRG Sprite
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