"anonsagainstanonymous" (anonsagainstanonymous)
10/24/2013 at 15:35 • Filed to: None
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"anonsagainstanonymous" (anonsagainstanonymous)
10/24/2013 at 15:35 • Filed to: None | 0
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Graaah! and I was test driving as well. I'm glad I only broke the mirror. Oh and the other car was fine thank Glob. It felt like being given a mirrored keyboard and told to write a four page essay within ten minutes.
This will take some getting used to...
lepie
> anonsagainstanonymous
10/24/2013 at 15:37 |
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Because ... i don't know but it's horrible.
duurtlang
> anonsagainstanonymous
10/24/2013 at 15:46 |
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I really wonder how driving on the wrong side would feel like. I've only been to the UK once, and only for a day. I was 16-17 back then, so too young for a Dutch drivers license.
Interesting. Maybe a good destination for a spring road trip?
Klaus Schmoll
> duurtlang
10/24/2013 at 16:30 |
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I've spent a few months in the UK in '08. I had my Mazda with me but also drove a lot of RHD company cars. I had the following experiences:
- The Mazda was fine except for overtaking slow vehicles on country roads. You just can't see shit, and to take a peek you have to fully move into (possibly) oncoming traffic.
- Multy storey car parks and other places where you have to operate something from the driver's side aren't exactly fun as well.
- LHD cars are completely puzzling at first, but the mind adapts quite quickly. For the first half hour or so you are constantly avoiding putting it into a ditch or shaving off the mirrors of parked cars. But after an hour or so the confidence that you once felt when driving comes back. Once this happens the brain switches quite easily between the two. There is just one major setback! I am right-handed. As in I can't do shit with my left hand! I use it to hand things to my "proper" hand, and that's it. Shifting gears with my left hand was and stayed tricky. I often started into a roundabout in third instead of first gear, stalling it right in the middle, being a sitting duck in traffic coming from the side. Apart from that, I had a blast driving a RHD 2nd gen Octavia TDI on windy rural roads.
Kuya
> Klaus Schmoll
10/24/2013 at 21:31 |
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If your right hand is stronger, shouldn't you find it easier to drive in the right side of the car? Basically your dominant hand is being used most of the time on the wheel, leaving your left hand with minimal work.
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Klaus Schmoll
> Kuya
10/25/2013 at 07:36 |
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Not really, most controls are in the center of the car, as is the gearstick.