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To: Misterioso

If you look it up, 60% of the world’s population drives on the right, and 40% on the left, mostly because China drives on the left.

I’ve never had to drive on the left myself, but its scared the holy hell out of me in several Caribbean countries, especially when heading into a roundabout.


12 posted on 06/06/2013 8:10:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
but its scared the holy hell out of me in several Caribbean

e.g. US Virgin Islands.

Drive on the left with left hand cars (wheel closest to the shoulder). Now that's a seat biter!

16 posted on 06/06/2013 8:21:25 PM PDT by llevrok (How hot does the water need to get before the frog should jump out?)
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To: Sherman Logan
China drives on the left

Nope. Japan does. From the air, I think Japan look a lot like England, except the pattern of the fields is more regular. The similarity is spooky for the brief period of time between when you can see traffic moving on the left side of the road, and when you can see the Japanese writing on bill boards and buildings.

Of course every Englishman and every Japanese I have ever mentioned that too has taken offense...

20 posted on 06/06/2013 8:46:57 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Sherman Logan
If you look it up, 60% of the world’s population drives on the right, and 40% on the left, mostly because China drives on the left.

China does not.

21 posted on 06/06/2013 8:57:55 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast)
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To: Sherman Logan
I’ve never had to drive on the left myself, but its scared the holy hell out of me in several Caribbean countries, especially when heading into a roundabout.

I lived in England for about a year in my mid thirties, and had to learn to drive on the left. Only had a couple of scares, but when I came home and got into my American car, the first thing I did was --- you guessed it --- I pulled right into oncoming traffic.

Thank goodness the opposing traffic was stuck behind a red light about a block away!

23 posted on 06/06/2013 9:32:51 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Sherman Logan
I’ve never had to drive on the left myself, but its scared the holy hell out of me in several Caribbean countries, especially when heading into a roundabout.

If you want to test your driving nerve, try driving an English country road at night time. They wind, they are lined with hedges so you can't see what's coming around the bend, and English drivers are impatient. They are right up your ass if you don't drive fast enough. Oh, least I forget you drive on the wrong side of the road. And to add to the challenge, English roads are about 60 percent the width of American roads.

28 posted on 06/06/2013 10:21:40 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: Sherman Logan

India drives on the left. China drives on the right.


31 posted on 06/06/2013 10:52:42 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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