"MegaSuper" (megasuper)
04/10/2015 at 18:51 • Filed to: None
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"MegaSuper" (megasuper)
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So you know how you drive on the side of the road opposite that which the steering wheel sits on? Makes sense because of passing visibility and all that? What places are there where you drive on the SAME side as that of the steering wheel?
AFAIK:
Myanmar/Burma (I think that's just for buses though, right? Because they're formerly British buses? That's what I recall from Top Gear, with passengers exiting into oncoming traffic)
US Virgin Islands: Drive on the right, but a lot of cars are RHD. I've been told this is due to proximity to the British Virgin Islands, but others have told me it's actually because there are so many cliffs, and the roads are so narrow, that it's safer to know how close you are to the edge, than to know how close you are to oncoming traffic!
Anywhere else?
The Real Dacia Sandero
> MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:06 |
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St Thomas USVI drives on the left. Most cars on the island are LHD.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:18 |
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possibly some places in Africa , as most are LHD , and some of southern Africa are RHD.
United Kingdom , quite a few LHD cars sold there.
Svend
> MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:20 |
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USVI and BVI drive on the left. The cars are often LHD due to the proximity to the U.S. but there are RHD on both.
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Svend
> MegaSuper
04/10/2015 at 19:30 |
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The fast eastern side of Russia. Russia drives on the right but in the far east in close proximity to asia there are a lot of right hand drive cars.
http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20121…
One thing that puzzles visitors to Russia's Far East City of Vladivostok is the traffic.
One thing that puzzles visitors to Russia's Far East City of Vladivostok is the traffic.
"Look, this car drives on the left," two Chinese delegates to the recent APEC summit observed from a shuttle bus. They were left visibly perplexed when they saw that the next three vehicles all turned out to be right-hand drives.
Russia drives on the left, but in Siberia and Russia's Far East, Japanese imports dominate the car market, and right-hand drives are common.
This does not just surprise visitors – it has created a significant political fault-line. The government has been steadily piling on the pressure, using tariffs and regulations to drive up the prices on imports, in an attempt to end the region's automotive independence.
Economic alienation slowly grew into political estrangement: the crackdown on an industry that created thousands of jobs triggered mass protests three years ahead of those seen more recently in Moscow.
Four years ago, tensions reached boiling point, and riot police had to be flown into Vladivostok to restore public order. Today, 60 percent of vehicles in the Primorye Region remain right-hand drives.
Meanwhile, the protest leaders are gearing up for the local elections in which the opposition expects to trounce the party of power, United Russia.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20121…