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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.
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>Its easier than it seems. I've driven LHD and RHD drives cars in Europe and the UK. Slowing down helps a lot , your usual driving speed minus 10% gives you a lot more thinking and reaction time .
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>The hardest drive I've had was in France in my English car when the passenger side mirror had been knocked off. It made motorway driving quite hard. Especially the more crowded areas.

We'll refrain from asking how the mirror came to be knocked off in the first place.....
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