Could the UK drive on the right?

[The Lawspeaker]

Yes. And you also need to start using the metric system.

Of course you won't, but some day a new Hitler will come and kick your ass, and do the same that they did with the Austrians: order the tanks to drive on the right.

Nah. The metric system is a nice and easy system but it is not traditional. Before the invention of the metric system all European nations used their own system and the way it worked differed from place to place. Well I am not in favor of this either but I think that we in Europe should switch towards the Imperial system and in our currencies also revert to the pre-decimal system that dates back to the Frankish era (and was used in the U.K- the last country in all of Europe which was ironically never part of the Frankish Empire).

We need our own systems and our own ways again.

[Lahtari]

Nah. The metric system is a nice and easy system but it is not traditional. Before the invention of the metric system all European nations used their own system and the way it worked differed from place to place. Well I am not in favor of this either but I think that we in Europe should switch towards the Imperial system and in our currencies also revert to the pre-decimal system that dates back to the Frankish era (and was used in the U.K- the last country in all of Europe which was ironically never part of the Frankish Empire).

We need our own systems and our own ways again.

Ok, just wait for the new Führer I promised you. Have fun working at the coal mines in some distant hellhole of the occupied British Empire.

[The Lawspeaker]

Ok, just wait for the new Führer I promised you. Have fun working at the coal mines in some distant hellhole of the occupied British Empire.

Nah. I prefer returning to tradition. Not one size fits all.
There were countries like Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands and several more (probably Austria too) that used the duodecimal system in their currencies before (on the mainland) the French took over in the late 1700s and in Britain until 1971.

[Lahtari]

Pssst, there was also a time when people measured distance by how often the horse takes a leak, and paid their daily groceries with squirrel skins.

(Ok, enough trolling for today, good night. )

[Brynhild]

BTW. I remember that I had posted a thread about Dagen H (September 3, 1967) when the Swedes switched to right-hand traffic.
Perhaps it is interesting to look at it and see what that kind of change will bring.

I propose left-hand traffic in all of the EU as it seems to be safer as well. A 1969 study by the British road engineer L.L Leeming showed that countries driving on the left-hand side of the road have a lower collision rate then those driving on the right-hand side of the road because of the way the human eye works. Or as wikipedia states: It has been suggested this is partly because humans are more commonly right-eye dominant than left-eye dominant. In left-hand traffic, the predominantly better-performing right eye is used to monitor oncoming traffic and the driver's wing mirror.

I am yet to find his work that lead him to this conclusion - or the figures for that matter but if this is true then it is a sound reason to left-hand traffic.

I can't say I've heard of this test, and would have no way of knowing how conclusive it is, but for myself, I'm right eye dominant and very comfortable with driving on the left hand side. Perhaps it's because I've been conditioned that way, but if there's any element of truth in this test, I'd be involved in a pile-up!

I said no to the UK switch. It's what everyone has gotten used to, and why should they conform to the rest of Europe, just because some of them want them to?

[Æmeric]

Britian is an island off to itself. Go ahead & drive on the leftside, it is part of makes the British unique. The Japanese also drive on the left.

[Treffie]

Countries driving on the left or right

[Beorn]

Bloody fascists all over the world. Workers of the blue world unite. No Pasaran!

[The Lawspeaker]

Bloody fascists all over the world. Workers of the blue world unite. No Pasaran!

I am from a red nation and it is high time to join the blue front !

[Lahtari]

Bloody fascists all over the world. Workers of the blue world unite. No Pasaran!

Workers? No, the countries marked on blue are the Free World, where everyone is still allowed to drive on whatever side they wish to. The reds are the Asiatic Communist hordes under one supreme Leader, who like the warriors of Genghis Khan, with slanting eyes gleaming behind the wheel, will drive over everyone who disagrees.