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w. yes, the 35 percent of the world's population drives on the left side of the road. like i did for most of my life in india of cards, this to people driving on the right hand side is wrong. why is this on which side of the road has people historically driven? how did the legs of napoleon and hitler play a part in getting people to switch sides with campbell's really prevent focused on for making the change. and which side of civil jelly is safe for to drive on. jab builds into the history of left to right and wrong with him driving say that's one of the 1st things i needed to come to terms with when i moved the country the 2 years ago, which got me thinking, why did some countries drive on the left side of the road and others on the right side, who got to decide this. and what did the engines romans have to do with it all? well,

let's find those driving side seem pretty fix doing the most if you're in north america drive on the right side of the road by the britain and its former colonies like india focused on history. on new zealand, south africa, hong kong single, the list goes on drive on the list. and while it seems like all the respective rules a set in stone, you'll be surprised to know that as recently as 2009 countries was still changing the mind. yes, it's 6 pm on september 7th, 2009 in the tiny island nation of some more. a voice crackled over the video, telling people to stop debbie. he goes with every day. well, it was the country's police ministers you a bit too. yeah. for us of pc reading people for the country is big switch from the right to the left side of the road. the reason the government warranted to adopt the same driving standards as the islands near this neighbors was really a n u villain. because it would make importing vehicles into the country,

easier for some ones. who would then also have access to cheapest 2nd hand cards. believe i don't know if the transition went smoothly, they would know accidents reported during the switchover, which was regulated by the police. the only 0 complication was that the someone's hadn't figured out what to do with their buses, which still had doors that opened on the right hand side. which meant that for the why, the, to the switch to moines was stepping off the buses into the middle of the street. something that eventually resulted but long before the people of some more i began to debate which side of the road to drive on the engine romans had already the sites see somewhere between inventing concrete and aqueduct did also gone in boots . the very 1st drugs and along with this they decided what side of the road people ought to be on. and according to them, it was best to keep lift. it turns out there were 2 reasons for this. first, back in ancient room, people travelled on horseback,

since most people are right and dominant said mount the horses from the left side, and they'd use their right hands to we did. the squads should be made to baffle enemies along the way. which meant it was easier to stick to the left side of the road. and roman chevy accused would use the lift, tends to hold the dns to the horses using the dominant. tonight tends to with best thieves all their rivals on the track. it's also said the poor boniface, the issue, the people edict in $1380.00 stating all the drums traveling to room or to stick to the left. although that doesn't appear to be any hard evidence of this. in fact, the looking good or to for because if you look through it seems to have uncovered evidence to the quantity at any of the, the changes keeping lift, spread across the entire roman empire, which extend it over half of the order and for the field. and that's how traffic running on the list became the no documented evidence of left side traffic exists

in britain. weighed in the 18th century, the london bridge act required traffic over the edge of a team to keep list. and in the 19th century, the highly activating party 5, made driving on the left side of the road nationwide low this into and meant that british colonies around the world at the same stand. so it's driving on the left side of the road was when and why the people begin to switch over. well, a bad into it has something to do with the resolutions and wanting to break for the past. it speculated the american split switch to using the right side of the road after the war of independence. it was a way of breaking with the colonial past and an attempt to denounce established conventions. but the 1st documented evidence of americans road traffic being us to keep right within the 1792 pennsylvania statute with a ton bike or toward road being moved from lancaster to philadelphia. the statutes required on traffic to keep to the right of the done but. but even before this,

american traffic had slowly been shifting to the dates, thanks to the comments, to buy wagons. these huge de, uniquely shape categories were often void by 24 or 6 horses. in order to control them better, the wagon knew would sit on the view left tossed, allowing his right hand to do most of the work with the whip. which also meant that keeping light allowed for better visibility of the road ahead. since the day that would be able to judge oncoming traffic that would cost to the list. and while people began switching sides and the new was winds of change were blowing across new york to it, speculated the defend chevy years and had a similar effect on trans as the american board of independence had in the us see in a bit to break with traditions defense rejected the keep left the key that had been imposed on them extensively by the church. but there is another purity, the apple plastic drove in cabbages that would keep left forcing the peasants onto the right side of the street,

off to the us and it was safer for the ditch to fall in line by switching to the right side of the street that's avoiding standing out too much and potentially being lynched, sent to the gear team. and there's another theory to it has to do with the little man in a blue jacket who had enormous amounts of influence in france and your to, to, before he saw l by that is it's often said that napoleon himself was left handed. so that's the hand with which he'd, we used his sword, therefore, preferred riding on the right side of the road, which he into and forced on the rest of the print empire as his armies march 2 yards and eventually parts of africa and north america did the keep right with them . it was finally surrendered. north america stands with keeping right. the advent of a motor car given the keeping died, had already become the norm and the us. it's no surprise the 1st ford motor,

the droid off. henry ford's assembly line. it had the steering wheels placed on the left, which naturally meant it was easier to drive on the day simply so the drivers could see better just not to see us up in canada. some provinces drove on the left, but others drove and today, depending on whether they used to be british or french calling in between your to be able to connect to canada would be us keels interviewed to the decision was made the switch to driving on the day incidentally, this was the same side of the door that one tied you and put back the 2 largest provinces in the country already used. vancouver was the last city in canada to make the switch at 6 pm on the 1st of january, 1922. back in your keeping right was gaining popularity. germany officially adopted driving on that side and 19 pen as he played again, strengthen the order he began to impose. all right, on several of the head of trees like austria entered, the vakio hungry,

which until then had persisted in driving on the left. finally made the switch in 1941. eventually the full country in continental europe. the drove on the list was sweden, which brings us to dog, and it's a real good chance to come logan and which translates to right and traffic. so your organization quite the tongue twister and possibly as complicated the pronounced as it was to execute. in 1967, the swedes decided that a switch to driving on the right side of the road would benefit them since it would ease cross border traffic complications with the notice neighbors, finland n or we. since the country already used left hand drive cars, which could lead to quite sensibly drive on the day side of the road. and since the on this cause was expected to substantially increase over the next 2 years, they settled on the date for the switch. sweden had an existence campaign to make sure the drivers wouldn't forget that they were meant to swap sides. the dog and

each logo was amazing, doing everything from bikini bottoms to wife runs. and so there was even a contest with pop band competed to make a song about the switch, the winning entry, a song called to the, to the swenson. ok, so the light swinson performed by the pill stuff. the bottom part of the process with motor this accident fee that will major logistical challenges because everything from george signs to bus stops needed to be swapped. the operation costs sweden, a whopping 120000000 swedish krona. that's roughly 160000000 your earliest today. and the country was left with the surplus buses with doors that opened out on the left side, which the eventually shipped to kenya and focused on speaking of focused on it's

been suggested that the country also considered switching from driving on the left to the right to big ridiculous on your past. unfortunately, at the time a lot of state goods were moved using campbells, which had all been chained to walk on the left side of the road. it has been a ledge, the g training obstinate can move to go on the right side of the road was to begin ask and so plans for the switch for a band and the bid is bare to side of the road that's better and safer to drive on and is the left or the right side of the road. the actual right side for 2020 study hypothesize that there was a link between host see if left 10 or right hand traffic was and you know, 50 logical factors like which can you just so which of your eyes is dominant and which side of the brain you use more the study, i'm like existing accident jacobs to try and find which side of the road is police vehicle and was 50 years or so ago. there was some evidence that countries with

left hand traffic supported fuel road accidents. the study eventually didn't deliver, consumes the results. instead it said, because it's put into the right hand in right, dominance, driving on the left could possibly be safer. nonetheless, it's certainly not the most popular choice way to, but of course the has in other countries indebted season underwood switch driving sides over the years. japan drives on the left side of fluid, but after world war to okinawa was on the american control and to switch to driving on the day. in contrast to the rest of the country. it was only in 1978 and what was called the 7 put the change over that attributed to driving on the left. iceland may do the sierra leone, human and honda, all switch driving side the various points in time to. but perhaps the quick use which is them all happened in myanmar on 6 december 1917 young, my vince to car bama switched from driving them the left side to the day. because

the countries need a genuine, a winsome feed exceeded. but since they don't need driven right hand drive cars until then they, since we move them over to the right side of the road, a practice which continues to, to be in modern damien. my. possibly the only country in the world right hand drive cause will cease to leave, dive on the right side of the door. unusual to say the least. which side of it or do you die one? and has there ever been a driving type in your body to what we'd love to hear from you? the the vibrant habitat, the listening place of longing, the mediterranean sea,

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