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To: stormer
Gear pattern and pedal layout are the same, but the stick’s on the wrong damn side!

I have sometimes wondered about that (I guess I have too much time on my hands).

One approach to RHD cars that appeals to the engineering mind is simply to flip the blueprints, so the gear pattern and pedal layouts would be mirror imaged about the centerline. Come to think of it, maybe the gauge faces and and legends should be, too. ≤}B^)

I guess ergonomics does enter into it at some point, though, spoiling the sweet symmetry of the strictly engineering approach.

172 posted on 06/01/2012 8:54:16 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: Erasmus
If the pedal layout was flipped it would be damn near impossible to drive. You'd quickly learn what it feels like to be one of those little old ladies that runs her Caddie through the front of the dry-cleaner...
178 posted on 06/01/2012 9:06:31 AM PDT by stormer
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