Could the UK drive on the right?

**Amarantine** · 09-08-2009, 08:31 AM

Of course, they should not drive with the wrong side!
Uh I would implement so big penalities for this!

**Phlegethon** · 09-08-2009, 09:54 AM

I have to admit that I harbour a deep distrust towards folks who drive on the wrong side of the road. Actually I have made the weird experience of driving a jeep with steering wheel on the right both in U.K. barracks as well as in regular German traffic, and although I am a good driver that alone can drive you nuts in no time. Changing gears with the left hand is a big no-no, and the arrangement of the pedals to me also clearly favours steering on the left and driving on the right side.

I consider Lawspeaker's quoted opinion as bogus. Just look at who is driving on the left in the world: Island apes, Aussies and Kiwis, plus a few piss-ant colonies and third world countries. You cannot really have accidents there as either nobody is driving there anyway, or, like in downtown London, it is completely safe, as the average speed is somewhere around 5 miles per hour.

**Lahtari** · 09-08-2009, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Phlegethon

I have to admit that I harbour a deep distrust towards folks who drive on the wrong side of the road. Actually I have made the weird experience of driving a jeep with steering wheel on the right both in U.K. barracks as well as in regular German traffic, and although I am a good driver that alone can drive you nuts in no time. Changing gears with the left hand is a big no-no, and the arrangement of the pedals to me also clearly favours steering on the left and driving on the right side.

So true. I'd rather trade my car for a donkey than go through all that trouble for nothing. At least there will be less accidents, then.

Originally Posted by Phlegethon

I consider Lawspeaker's quoted opinion as bogus. Just look at who is driving on the left in the world: Island apes, Aussies and Kiwis, plus a few piss-ant colonies and third world countries. You cannot really have accidents there as either nobody is driving there anyway, or, like in downtown London, it is completely safe, as the average speed is somewhere around 5 miles per hour.

And in ...India? What do they drive there with? Donkeys? :mmmm:

**Phlegethon** · 09-08-2009, 10:07 AM

As we all know India has no traffic laws that get enforced, so the side of the street can be chosen deliberately. They are at the "survival of the fittest' stage in this respect.

**Pino** · 09-08-2009, 12:24 PM

I like driving on the left, it's just about one of the last British things in Britain left!

**The Lawspeaker** · 09-08-2009, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Phlegethon

I consider Lawspeaker's quoted opinion as bogus. Just look at who is driving on the left in the world: Island apes, Aussies and Kiwis, plus a few piss-ant colonies and third world countries. You cannot really have accidents there as either nobody is driving there anyway, or, like in downtown London, it is completely safe, as the average speed is somewhere around 5 miles per hour.

It's a study dating back to 1969. Actually in those days here in the Netherlands around 3000 a year died in traffic.
Sweden actually got less head-on collisions after Dagen H because people drove carefully but it didn't take long until the number of accidents reached the old level.

And I have no idea when you were in Britain. But I have noticed that traffic was indeed very safe there when I was there but that perhaps has more to do with the responsible way in which they drive. (As punctual as the Germans btw).

But I think that your remark btw it more motivated by this hatred of anything English. "Nobody is driving there" LOL!

Here is Sydney:

And the good old M25 around London:

Nobody ever drives in India

But, indeed, traffic in India is far from safe. But that is because those Sahib's can't drive anyways.

**Phlegethon** · 09-08-2009, 06:38 PM

We have more traffic here than around London, as we are the bigger metropolitan area. And I'd say that we're also slightly more disciplined in traffic. Belgium and France of course are pure anarchy on the street, Portugal and Greece are suicide, Spain is somewhere in between. And the Netherlands: they are only a problem when they drive outside of the Netherlands, unless you're talking about the bicyclists. They should all be shot!