And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This must be a very early Ferrari, the trademark shifter gate is absent.
In a RHD car your strong hand is on the wheel and your weak hand is on the shifter. Also consider this, the most dangerous collision is the offset head-on where one car crosses the centre line and the left front corners collide. Since the left front seats are always occupied (in North America) both drivers are severely injured and possibly killed. If two RHD cars were to collide left front to left front the drivers would suffer less injury, they might even walk away uninjured. Pre-WWI many American makers such as Mercer and Stutz put the steering wheel on the right. It was that idiot Henry Ford who popularized LHD which means the driver has to exit the car into street traffic rather than stepping out onto the curb.
I'm biased, I own an '86 M535 that I imported from England in 2010, it took about 50 miles for me to adapt.
On the other hand, almost all RHD cars are in Britain where people drive on the left or they are in other countries where people drive on the left, so almost all RHD drivers are exposed to the same hazard.
Yeah, the steering wheel needs to be on the left to make it right.......
ReplyDeleteWho put the steering wheel on the WRONG side? That makes no sense. No sense at all.
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DeleteDon't tell the Limey's it's on the WRONG side.
DeleteYeah, we're still "The Colonies" to them - hehe (the Boys on BBC Top Gear, now operating as The Grand Tour, always made that comment.)
DeleteThis must be a very early Ferrari, the trademark shifter gate is absent.
ReplyDeleteIn a RHD car your strong hand is on the wheel and your weak hand is on the shifter. Also consider this, the most dangerous collision is the offset head-on where one car crosses the centre line and the left front corners collide. Since the left front seats are always occupied (in North America) both drivers are severely injured and possibly killed. If two RHD cars were to collide left front to left front the drivers would suffer less injury, they might even walk away uninjured. Pre-WWI many American makers such as Mercer and Stutz put the steering wheel on the right. It was that idiot Henry Ford who popularized LHD which means the driver has to exit the car into street traffic rather than stepping out onto the curb.
I'm biased, I own an '86 M535 that I imported from England in 2010, it took about 50 miles for me to adapt.
Al_in_Ottawa
On the other hand, almost all RHD cars are in Britain where people drive on the left or they are in other countries where people drive on the left, so almost all RHD drivers are exposed to the same hazard.
DeleteYeah, to all of the above. The only glaring exceptions is that I'm not the one who owns it!
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