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Left-Side Driving
Is Britain the only country in the world (0) where cars drive on the left? About
quarter of the world drives on the left - and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies. This strange custom puzzles foreigners. However,
is a perfectly good reason.
In feudal times, everybody travelled on the left side of the road because it
the sensible option for violent societies of mostly right-handed people. Jousting knights with their lances under their right arm naturally passed
each other's right, and when you passed a stranger on the road you moved to the left to
that your protective sword arm was between yourself and him.
Revolutionary France, however, overturned this practice
part of its new social order. This change was carried all over continental Europe by Napoleon. The new drive-on-the-right policy was then adopted by the young USA, which was anxious to break
all remaining links with its British colonial past. Once America drove on the right, left-side driving was doomed. If you wanted a cheap, reliable vehicle, you
American, and therefore many countries changed out of necessity.
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