I think that that the USA and most every other country that was not a part of the Commonwealth drive on the right side of the road as that is the way ships in a narrow passage approach each other, even British ships.

Ahoy.
Not sailing boats:)

• Whoever has the wind on the starboard (right) side must swerve against the boat which has the wind on the port (left) side.
• Have both boats wind on the starboard (right) side must the boat that are in
windward (closest to the wind) swerve.
• A boat catching up another boat must swerve.

Railway trains has always been driving on the left side here...

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

Beg your pardon, but we drive on the correct side of the road.

In days of old how would you have saluted or handled weapons when your right hand is in the center of the vehicle. Your right arm needs to be able to be outside of the vehicle.
Does seem strange to me, that the USA a country that loves its guns so much, they disadvantage themselves by driving on the wrong side of the road.

Have you heard the term shotgun? You know it derives from horse drawn wagons and the need to defend against redcoats. :)

Beg your pardon, but we drive on the correct side of the road.

In days of old how would you have saluted or handled weapons when your right hand is in the center of the vehicle. Your right arm needs to be able to be outside of the vehicle.
Does seem strange to me, that the USA a country that loves its guns so much, they disadvantage themselves by driving on the wrong side of the road.

Have you heard the term shotgun? You know it derives from horse drawn wagons and the need to defend against redcoats. :)

It could also derive from the middle ages when they were jousting.
Its more easy to hold a lance in your right hand and meet your opponent on the right side:)

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

Beg your pardon, but we drive on the correct side of the road.

In days of old how would you have saluted or handled weapons when your right hand is in the center of the vehicle. Your right arm needs to be able to be outside of the vehicle.
Does seem strange to me, that the USA a country that loves its guns so much, they disadvantage themselves by driving on the wrong side of the road.

Have you heard the term shotgun? You know it derives from horse drawn wagons and the need to defend against redcoats. :)

But a shotgun has the ability to move and turn, an option the driver hasn't.

People have had to defend themselves in horse drawn wagon's long before the America's were even discovered.

Also going by traffic stats, the majority of journeys only have the driver in the car, so no shotgun.

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

Beg your pardon, but we drive on the correct side of the road.

In days of old how would you have saluted or handled weapons when your right hand is in the center of the vehicle. Your right arm needs to be able to be outside of the vehicle.
Does seem strange to me, that the USA a country that loves its guns so much, they disadvantage themselves by driving on the wrong side of the road.

Have you heard the term shotgun? You know it derives from horse drawn wagons and the need to defend against redcoats. :)

But a shotgun has the ability to move and turn, an option the driver hasn't.

People have had to defend themselves in horse drawn wagon's long before the America's were even discovered.

Also going by traffic stats, the majority of journeys only have the driver in the car, so no shotgun.

Roads and customs predate the gasoline engine.

On my hands the veins on right side looks like a H as in "Höger" (Right).
On the left side they looks like a V as in "Vänster" (Left)

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

Beg your pardon, but we drive on the correct side of the road.

In days of old how would you have saluted or handled weapons when your right hand is in the center of the vehicle. Your right arm needs to be able to be outside of the vehicle.
Does seem strange to me, that the USA a country that loves its guns so much, they disadvantage themselves by driving on the wrong side of the road.

Have you heard the term shotgun? You know it derives from horse drawn wagons and the need to defend against redcoats. :)

But a shotgun has the ability to move and turn, an option the driver hasn't.

People have had to defend themselves in horse drawn wagon's long before the America's were even discovered.

Also going by traffic stats, the majority of journeys only have the driver in the car, so no shotgun.

About 200-300 years? If we go by the Columbus story?

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

Has to be delivered with an air of dismissiveness with the nose at least 45 degrees from level.

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Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

Japan, Australasia, India and a large chunk of southern Africa agrees with us.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

Japan, Australasia, India and a large chunk of southern Africa agrees with us.

Why is that?
Why are you not mentioning closer, European countries?
:)

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

Japan, Australasia, India and a large chunk of southern Africa agrees with us.

Why is that?
Why are you not mentioning closer, European countries?
:)

Because we went to war with the last chap who marched across Europe forcing them to change driving sides.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Technically GB is a constitutional monarchy nothing like the kingdoms of old when a king or queen had absolute power. Personally I have no problem with the system as it exists today. I just wonder when they will realise the error of their ways and start driving on the right side of the road :)

We do drive on the right side, you lot drive on the wrong side!

Typical British snobbery. We are right, everybody else is wrong ;)

Japan, Australasia, India and a large chunk of southern Africa agrees with us.

Why is that?
Why are you not mentioning closer, European countries?
:)

Because we went to war with the last chap who marched across Europe forcing them to change driving sides.

Yes, I'm sure it was which side of the road people drive on that was on the bloke's mind.

Of that list Japan was the only country not directly under the influence of GB and even then Japan patterned their modernization in the early 1900s after the British example.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Because we went to war with the last chap who marched across Europe forcing them to change driving sides.

Yes, I'm sure it was which side of the road people drive on that was on the bloke's mind.

There were many things on his mind, that was only one of them.

I think we're getting rather off topic.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Aside from Great Britain, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus are the only left in Europe driving on the "right" side. :D

In 1998, archaeologists found a well-preserved double track leading to a Roman quarry near Swindon, England. The grooves in the road on the left side (viewed facing down the track away from the quarry) were much deeper than those on the right side. These grooves suggest that the Romans drove on the left, at least in this location, since carts would exit the quarry heavily loaded, and enter it empty.[4]

Some historians, such as C. Northcote Parkinson, believed that ancient travellers on horseback generally rode on the left side of the road. As more people are right-handed, a horseman would thus be able to hold the reins with his left hand and keep his right hand free—to offer in friendship to passing riders or to defend himself with a sword, if necessary.[41]

Homer Simpson has met the Queen of England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cGNfn5Eco

& in what way is that relevant to thread topic?

I Think the views of Monarchy in Republics are funny.
As you know our country, Denmark and Norway are monarchies.
And I know that Donald Trump once said that he wanted to meet the Swedish president:)