RE: RE: [privacy] Gas prices and car driving

["Gary Funck" <gary () intrepid com>]

DrSolly wrote:
> About a third of the countries in the world drive on the left, 2/3 on the
> right. The Romans drove on the left; if it's good enough for them, it's
> good enough for me.

http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html

Some interesting tidbits:

In China (1100 BC):
Australian historian M. G. Lay traced the first regulation of
one-side-or-the-other to the Chinese bureaucracy of 1100 B.C. The Book of
Rites stated: "The right side of the road is for men, the left side for
women and the center for carriages." This Western Zhou dynasty rule applied
only to the dynasty's wide official roads and was "more concerned with
protocol than avoiding head-on collisions."

In England (Middle Ages):
Seven hundred years ago, everybody used the English system. In the Middle
Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you never knew who
you'd meet on the road in those days; you wanted to make sure that a
stranger passed on the right so you could go for your sword in case he
proved unfriendly.

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So what do the Brits do now when presented with danger?  Throw their cell
phones at each other?  <g>

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