Why do foreign cars have the steering wheel on the wrong side?

@SomeMichGuy Lol :)

@SomeMichGuy good American car specs! 🤣🤣🤣

@badminton If you drive on the wrong side of the road you'll cause a crash. Not advisable.

@braveheart21 Europe and the US are on the correct side!

@Strictmichael75 how long have you had roads... Some of the roads in the uk are 2000 yrs old... Who drives on the wrong side 🤔🤔

@braveheart21 find the explanation in history !!
Even the Romans drove chariots on the right !

@ArishMell I know you don't it was meant to be tongue in cheek. Here in Australia it is the same as the UK car drive on the left, and trains have left hand running.

It all has to do with the past. Drive / Ride you horse on the left, carry you weapon in the right hand, defend from bandits and highway men. The reason for the driving on the right is the french revolution and the Napoleonic wars. For a more detailed explanation see here: https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/#:~:text=In%20the%20past%2C%20almost%20everybody,their%20scabbard%20further%20from%20him.

@chubbysteve99 The Scottish National Party, like secessionist parties generally, is not given to explaining how it intends interacting with its "new" neighbours let alone the rest of the world, but it does say it would apply to join the EU.

That led to one or two of its dreamier politicians suggesting changing its road rules to driving on the right.

They seem to have soon, quietly abandoned that idea, perhaps realising it totally impractical and unaffordable; and a grand recipe for utter chaos.

It is not EU policy, although the UK leaving the [i]bloc[/i] leaves Eire as the only lefthand-side drive EU nation; and none of the entire geographical British Isles has a terrestrial frontier with any righthand-drive country.

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Vive La France, eh?

She is responsible for driving on the right as most of the world's motorists do; she also invented the now-universal Metric units of measurement*; and her language replaced Latin for a long time as the near-universal one of diplomacy ...

*France nearly managed to make the fledgling USA, Metric too. Internationally, the official units are still the original Metric ones, and their names respect their French not American language, but they are now subsumed into the Systèmè Internationale. The S.I. was devised and ratified by the International Standards Organisation, of which the USA is a fully paid-up member - in fact very few nations are not either Full or Associate ISO affiliates.

@BijouPleasurette In the US they are all on the left.

@Nitedoc I've never been to the US.

@BijouPleasurette Well come on over!

@ArishMell I drove a right hand drive Volvo 245 for 12 years in Norway and for the last five years I have driven several thousand kilometres per year in the UK in a left hand drive car. Once you are used to your position in the car it makes very little difference to the driver.

On the other hand, front seat passengers in left hand drive vehicles in the UK can get quite worried especially on narrow roads in places like Devon and Cornwall. Similarly, my wife found being a passenger in the Volvo in Norway in the winter when the roads are narrowed by snow piled up on th edges quite stressful. Offset frontal collisions are quite common in the winter here, best to not be driving the vehicle with the steering wheel on the appropriate side then!

@SpudMuffin So I've noticed. Most of them seem negative. What happened to the positive vibe that used to be on this site?

@BijouPleasurette I know! People take things too seriously. There's enough bad shit going on in real life, why spread it to SW?

@SpudMuffin I dunno, but people do.