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29/08/2011 04:28:40
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>>Personally I'm comfortable with all combinations - partly through having spent a lot of time in the UK with a LHD and a lot of time in the US driving a RHD.....
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>>You mean the other way around ?
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>I read that as "I drove wrong-side-wheel on both sides of the pond".
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>>Never drove in a RHD. Used to a LHD (in RHT) , I felt strange being a car passenger in the UK. You are sitting in your 'normal' seat - but there is no wheel in front of you
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>>Of course, once you get used to both systems, it changes. Luckily the position of the clutch, brake and accelerator does not change
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>I pride myself in being rather ambidextrous for most of the stuff - I can write and draw with my left (the handwriting isn't much worse than my right hand one, but that doesn't mean it's good :), using pen or chalk; I can switch knife and fork (actually, the rule is "fork is on the side where the salad bowl is"). I can do lots of stuff in mirrored positions which many would find confusing... but I simply can't imagine myself driving on the left. Maybe, as Viv says, you get used to it. My concern is how to survive the accommodation period.

I don't have your mirroring skills but found driving on the left to be no big deal. The only thing I noticed was I would sometimes touch the curb, apparently judging its position based on my own position inside the car. It surprised me how quickly it felt normal. (Which of course it isn't ;-) ) What didn't find normal were those insane London roads, which were surely laid out by cows. Blind ones.
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