RE: "Right" Side of the Road

From: Richard Atherton (Entex) (a-richat(at)MICROSOFT.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 1997 - 01:38:26 CDT


        Huh? What sign? Here in the US, I have seen many right hand
drive cars, but have never seen a sign on them. What is the sign for?

Rich

> ----------
> From: Anthony
> Robinson[SMTP:anthonyr(at)aqua.civag.unimelb.EDU.AU]
> Reply To: Anthony Robinson
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 1997 6:53 PM
> To: alpines(at)autox.team.net
> Subject: "Right" Side of the Road
>
> > I haven't been to some of these countries but am told that they
> drive
> >on the left. So ones that I can think of are New Zealand (Population
> 3
> >million),Australia (13 million) Japan (128 million) South Africa (58
> >million) India (980 million) Great Britain (53 million) not to
> mention
> >lots of Africian States and I think lots of the Middle East. I guess
> >(with well over a billion of us) perhaps we are not as much a
> minority
> >as was first thought.
>
> Don't think me xenophobic or over proud of my country, but Australia
> has 18
> million people. Or about 1 series Alpine or Tiger for every 90000
> people.
> And as it turns out, you can drive a car with the steering wheel on
> the LHS
> of the car, as long as you put a sign in the back window.
>
> Anthony.
>
>



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