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[Stuart Biggerstaff]

At 12:47 PM 6/9/2005, A. Khattri wrote:

>On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>
> > To make things
> > worse, they even DRIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET to keep you
> > preoccupied
>
>Americans switched over to the other side purely because a popular buggy
>(i.e. horse and cart) had the brake lever on the WRONG side of the
>vehicle, forcing drivers to sit on the other side and hence drive on the
>other side.
>
>American engineering at its best.

Then what of the French and the Germans, and the rest of Europe?  (As I 
recall Sweden had some really quaint excuse for the longest time for 
driving on the right--but having right hand drive like Britain, Australia, 
and Japan.)




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