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In Myanmar, most people have a right vehicle propulsion, but they drive on the right side of the road picture in February 2012.
Here are some facts about driving on the left if you want to know the story behind the left-hand drive or right here.
While all countries have swapped sides have transferred from left to right, the only three recorded cases of transfer of right to left were in East Timor in 1975, to July 30, 1978 Okinawa and Samoa on September 7 2009.
A newspaper article the day suggested that, for European Integration April Fool, the UK was to convert to driving on the right, however, because of the enormous amount of work this conversion result, it would gradually to the first six months the regulation would apply to buses and taxis.
Myanmar formerly Burma was a British colony until 1948, and led to the left until 1970, when he switched sides It is said that in 1970 the rule of the country at that time, General Ne Win, ordered everyone to start driving on the right side of the road, on the advice of an assistant However, virtually all vehicles is right hard, because there are still many old cars and buses circulating and almost all modern cars are used imports from Japan can always see the same old traffic lights in downtown Yangon on the wrong side of the road.
Almost always, in countries where they drive on the right side of the road, the cars are built so that the driver is on the left side of the car Conversely, driving on the left side of the road generally means that the driver's seat is on the right side of the car, it was different, however.
T Ford Touring with the steering wheel on the left in 1908.
All motor first in the United States by car on the right side of the road were to drive right, following the established practice of horse-drawn buggies, they changed direction to the left road in the early 1900s, as it was decided that was more convenient to have the driver sitting near the axis of the road, both to judge space when passing oncoming cars, and to allow passengers seated forward out of the car on the sidewalk instead of in the middle of the street.
Ford changed to left-hand drive in the model year 1908 Ford A 1908 catalog explains the benefits of placing the controls on the left side of the car.
The control is located on the left side, the logical place for the following reasons Dolly the wheel of the Highway right side on the right side of the car, he took out of the side of the street and walk around This car is inconvenient and especially practical if a lady to consider the control on the left allows you to exit the car on the edge without having to turn around the car in leadership with the right control, the driver is farthest from the vehicle in which it passes, going in the opposite direction; with the left hand, it is able to see even the wheel of the other car and easily avoids the danger.
Today, the driver is always on the side of the car that is closest to the center line, however, there are some exceptions, among others, certain types of vehicles specialized services, for example, street-sweeping vehicles may have the reverse driving position place the driver next to Italian truck gutter built buses were right hard for many years to better observe the passenger doors.
Some countries restrict imports of vehicles that have their controls arranged differently from the norm for the country, but foreign tourists are usually allowed to drive their vehicles when visiting weird non-standard vehicles are required to have a sign on the back announcing it, usually bed, right-player or hand LHD or just RHD or LHD Cambodia resulting right prohibits all vehicles RHD in January 2001 to monitor imports of stolen vehicles and smuggled from Thailand He asked all car owners to have their vehicles modified so that the steering wheel is on the left or the confiscation risk Approximately 80 vehicles officially registered in the country had to be amended to comply.
Comfort in all this is that the arrangement of the pedals and the gear lever is the same worldwide An international standard has reached some time ago that determined the order of the pedals, no matter what side the steering wheel is Going from right to left, the order is always CBA or the accelerator, brake and clutch if the vehicle has manual transmission Thanks to this international standard, the driver who lives in a country RHD and, for example, renting a car in a country left needle drive, not to rehabilitate before driving a car which has the steering wheel on the other side.
The manual versus automatic gear lever pattern is the same, but only for commercial reasons Since the cost-benefit ratio is not favorable, the same transmissions are typically used regardless if the car is left hand -DVD or right drive by hand.
A non-standardized area is the location of the turn signal lever In most places, the turn signal is mounted on the left side of the steering column This includes motor vehicles right hand in the UK, and vehicles LHD in American and European vehicles built continental Australia and Japan have however turn signal lever mounted on the right, at some point, this meant that the cars made by Nissan in Britain had the signals and the wiper controls in one direction only, but cars made by Nissan in Japan to the UK market had the opposite direction to the turn in recent years, most Japanese cars sold in the British Isles seem to conform to the European Convention.
Cars driven on the right side of the road usually have lights that aim slightly to the right when not on full beam, and vice versa with cars designed to run on the left in Europe, it is common for travelers from the United Kingdom to fix deflectors their headlights to avoid dazzle oncoming drivers when driving on the wrong side of the road too, wipers are generally aligned to give more coverage to next to the driver that the passenger side.
The Japanese sometimes import left-drive car models hand, while the Japanese standard car in Japan is hard right hand This is only done for prestige A Mercedes or BMW with the steering wheel on the left is considered more authentic and carries something of a stamp is also more expensive than the straight-drive version of the vehicle.
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