of the that's all for now. i've next, i'll also show rev looks up why most countries in the wild drive on the right side of the road and how the likes of napoleon and hippa plate of pods and get some people to switch sides. stay tuned. we have one years coming up at the top of the out the we've got some hot tips for your package that zip code is spots affinities. check on some great cultural memorials to boot w travel regarding this, the shadows of jumping colors. these pod costs and video shed lights on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany across and he employed the score

farms and destroyed lights. what is the legacy of this wide spread races, depression? today, history, we need to talk about here, the stories, shadows of german colonialism, the just 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 course this, the people are 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 sites with campbells that 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 list tonights and wrongs with him driving say, that's one of the 1st things i needed to come to terms with when i moved the

country for 2 years ago. which got me thinking why to 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 engine 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, 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 will 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 voice crackled over the video, telling people to stop them. it goes wherever they were. it was the country's police. mr. you repeat it to you? yeah, for 5 pc reading people for the country is big switch from the right to the left

side of the road. disease and the government warranted to adopt the same driving standards as the islands near this neighbors, australia, and new zealand. 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 switch over 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 last 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 debated with tied up through the drive on the instant romans had already picked sides c. somewhere between inventing concrete and aqueduct that also was

then boots the very 1st druids. and along with this, they decided which side of the road people ought to be on, and according to them, it was best to keep lift. it turns out that were 2 reasons for this. first back in ancient room, people travelled on horseback. since most people are right and dominant feed mount the horses from the left side and they'd use their right hands to we did this. words 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 their 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 edicts in $1380.00 stating all the drums traveling to rome or to stick to the left. although there doesn't appear to be any hard evidence of please. in fact, the looking kid or put up a book called if you look through it seems to have uncovered evidence to the quantity. at any rate,

the trend of keeping left straight across the entire roman empire, which extended over half of the yard and further to feed. and that's how traffic running on the list became the no documented evidence of left side traffic exists in britain wade and the 18th century, the london bridge act required traffic over the teams to keep list. and in the 19th century, the hi we activated in 35 made driving on the left side of the road nationwide low this into and meant the british colonies around the world are the same standards. so it's driving on the left side of the road was the knob when and why did people begin to switch over? well, a bad into it has something to do with the resolutions. and one thing to break with the past. it speculated that the americans 1st 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. the 1st documented evidence of american drawer. traffic being asked to

keep right within the 1792 pennsylvania statute with a ton psych or toy road being moved from lancaster to philadelphia. the statute required on traffic to keep to the right to fit the bike. but even before this, american traffic had slowly been shifting to the dates. thanks to the comments to buy these huge, the uniquely shaped cabbages were off employed by 24, or 6 horses. in order to control them better, the wagon knew would sit under the left horse allowing his right hand to do most of the work with the whip. which also meant that keeping the night aloud for better visibility of february the head 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 order to it, speculated the defend chevy use and had a similar effect on trans as the american board of independence had in the usa in a bit debrief with traditions defense rejected to keep left the key that had been

imposed on them extensively by the church. but there's another purity, the apple plastic tubing, cabbages that would keep this forcing the peasants onto the right side of the street off to the us. and it was safer for the rich to fall in line by switching to the right side of the street. that's avoiding standing up 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 enrollments amounts of influence in crohn's 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 viewed his sword, therefore, preferred riding on the right side of the road, which he in throne forced on the rest of the french empire as his armies march 2 yards and eventually parts of africa and north america. they took the key pride

with them. it was finally surrendered. north america stands with keeping right the advent of the mode. okay. given that keeping date had already become the norm and the us, it's no surprise. but when the 1st full model, 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 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 a bit on time 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 against friends in the order he began to impose. all right, and 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 be as complicated with 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 even cross border traffic complications within notice neighbors, finland, n or we, since the country already use left hand drive cars, which could lead to quite sensibly drive on the right side of the road. and since

the on this cause was expected to substantially increase over the next 2 years, the settled on the dates 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 h logo was in blazing, doing everything from bikini bottoms to wife runs and sulks. 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 night 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 camels, which had all been chained to walk on the left side of the road. it has been a ledge, the g training austin, this 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 tend or right hand traffic was. and you'd have to

do 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 less existing accident jacobs to try and find which side of the road is felicia . and was 50 years or so ago, there was some evidence that countries with the left hand traffic supported fueled accidents, the study eventually didn't deliver conservative results. instead it said because it's put into his right hand and right dominant 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 around the world that hit switch driving sides. over the years, japan drives from the left side of the road, but after world war to okinawa was on the american control and to switch to driving on the drive. 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 and they do the seo the own human

encana. all switch driving side the various points in time to. but perhaps the quick youth which is the mall happened in myanmar on 6 december 1917 young myers been still quite boma switched from driving them the left side to the day because the countries need a genuine new wind since you've exceeded. but since they don't need driven right hand drive cause 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 officially drive on the right side of civil unusual to say, the least with tied to for to do you die one. and has there ever been a driving type in your body to it? we'd love to hear from you the

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