So let's have a pillow fight on a global scale! ๐ This community is a perfect theater for this!
I was born in continental Europe and learned to drive on the right side of the road.
But my first car was this.... a 1998 Mazda 626 with 100,666 miles on the clock that I bought in London, UK. Look where the steering wheel is ๐
It was an automatic so adapting to left-hand traffic was a breeze. I drove it for 4 years and sold it upon leaving the UK in 2006.
Strangely, to this day, I feel safer and more comfortable driving on the left. My dominant right arm is on the steering wheel, my dominant right eye has a better view of the oncoming traffic. And it's like that even when I drive a European car in Britain (which I did for quite some later in my life) - and that's just weird ๐
To me driving on the left makes more sense and I know quite a few people, all Europeans, who share my opinion.
Anyone with the same experience? Anyone from Sweden who experienced Dagen H?
Kristian Klima
Director of Technical Content, Emplifi
Emplifi
Prague, Czechia
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