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new service, thank you so much for those insights left and with that you are up to date. it's coming up next rather asks why the majority of the world drives on the right hand side of the roads stick around. so that if you can, i mean you could just, mckinnon, thanks so much for watching. dw, the best into our is whenever they feel like it's kind of cool to sign a session and pay most pieces in the sky. the best have most is many on including the house of savannah, the how do they do in the secret line?
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that stuffs may 22nd on the w, the just the 35 percent of the world's population drives in the left side of the road. like i did for most of my life in india. of course this, the people are driving on the right hand side is wrong. why is this on which side of the road has people historically driven? how did the legs of napoleon and hitler play a part in getting people to switch sites with campbells that really prevent focused on from making the change. and which side of civil jelly is safe for to drive on. jab builds into the history of list tonights and drones within the site. that's one of the 1st things i needed to come to terms with when i moved the country for 2 years ago. which got me thinking why to some countries drive on the left side of the road and others on the right side who got to decide this. and what did the
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engines romans have to do with it all? well, let's find those driving side seem pretty fix doing the most if you're in north america drive on the right side of the road by the britain and its former colonies like india focused on australia, new zealand, south africa, hong kong single. the list goes on drive on the list, and while it seems like all the respective rules a set in stone, you'll be surprised to know that as recently as 2009 countries was still changing the mind. yes, it's 6 pm on september 7th, 2009 in the tiny island nation of some more voice crackled over the video, telling people to stop debbie. he goes with every day. well it was the country's police ministers. you a tape? it was. yeah, for 5 pc reading people for the country is big switch from the right to the left side of the road. the reason the government warranted to adopt the same driving standards as the islands near this neighbors was fairly
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a n u v lane because it would make importing vehicles into the country, easier for some ones who would then also have access to cheapest 2nd hand cards. believe i don't know if the transition went smoothly, they would, no accidents reported during the switch over which was regulated by the police. the only 0 complication was that the someone's hadn't figured out what to do with their buses, which still had doors that opened on the right hand side. which meant that for the why the to the switch, someone's was stepping off the buses into the middle of the street. something that eventually resulted but long before the people of some more i began to debate which side of the road drive on the engine. romans had already picked sides c, somewhere between inventing concrete and aqueduct did also gone in boots. the very 1st drugs and along with. ringback they decided which side of the road people ought to be on, and according to them, it was best to keep lift. it turns out to reasons for this. first,
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back in ancient room, people travelled on horseback, since most people are right and dominant said mount the horses from the left side, and they'd use their right hands to we did. the squads should be made to baffle enemies along the way. which meant it was easier to stick to the left side of the road. and roman chevy accused would use their lift, tends to hold the dns to the horses using that dominant tonight tends to with best deeds, all their rivals on the check. it's also said the poor boniface, the issue, the people edict in $1380.00 stating all the drums traveling to room or to stick to the left. although that doesn't appear to be any hard evidence with this. in fact, the to can get or to for because if you look through it seems to have uncovered evidence to the quantity at any of the, the 10 that's keeping lift straight across the entire roman empire, which extend it over half of the yard. and for the field, and that's how traffic running on the list became the no documented evidence of
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left side traffic exists in britain. weighed in the 18th century, the london bridge act required traffic over the teams to keep list. and in the 19th century, the highly activating party 5, made driving on the left side of the road nationwide low this into and meant the british colonies around the world at the same standards. so it's driving on the left side of the road was the knob when and why the people begin to switch over. well, a bad into it has something to do with the resolutions and wanting to break for the past. it speculated the american split switch to using the right side of the road after the war of independence. it was a way of breaking with the colonial past and an attempt to denounce established conventions. but the 1st documented evidence of americans road traffic being us to keep right within the 1792 pennsylvania statute with a ton bike or toward road being moved from lancaster to philadelphia. the statutes
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required on traffic to keep to the right to fit the bike. but even before this, american traffic had slowly been shifting to the dates. thanks to the comments to about what these huge, the uniquely shaped cabbages were. often, boyd by $24.00 or 6 horses, in order to control them better, the wagon knew would sit on the view left tossed, allowing his right hand to do most of the work with the whip, which also meant that keeping the night aloud for better visibility of the road ahead since the day that would be able to judge oncoming traffic that would cost to the list. and while people began switching sides and the new was winds of change were blowing across new order to it, speculated the defend chevy use and had a similar effect on trans as the american board of independence had in the us see in a bit debrief with traditions defense rejected to keep left the key that had been imposed on them extensively by the church. but there's another purity, the apple plastic drove in cabbages that would keep this forcing the peasants onto
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the right side of the street off to the us and it was safer for the ditch to fall in line by switching to the right side of the street. that's avoiding standing out too much and potentially being least present to the gear team. and there's another theory to it has to do with the little man in a blue jacket who has enrolled this amount of influence in france and your to, to before he saw l by that is it's often said that an important in himself was left handed. so that's the hand with which he'd, we use his sword, therefore, preferred riding on the right side of the road, which he and thrown forced under the print empire as his armies march 2 yards and eventually parts of africa and north america. did the keep right with them? it was finally suspended, north america stands with keeping right the advent of the lord. okay. given that keeping day 2 already become the norm in the us,
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it's no surprise the when the 1st full model, the droid off. henry ford's assembly line it had the steering wheels placed on the left, which naturally meant it was easier to drive and the guy simply told the drive was could see better just not to see us up in canada. some provinces drove on the left, but others drove and today, depending on whether they used to be british or french calling in between your to bid to connect to canada would be us keels interviewed to the decision was made the switch today the day. incidentally, this was the same side of the door a bit on time you and put back the 2 largest provinces in the country already used . vancouver was the last city in canada to make the switch at 6 in on the 1st of january, 1922. back in your keeping right was gaining popularity. germany officially adopted driving on that site in 1910 as he later again strengthen your to p,
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began to influence all right. on several of the head of trees like austria entered the box here, hungry, which on till then had persisted in driving on the left finally made the switch in 1941. eventually the full country in continental europe, that drove on the list with sweden. which brings us to diagnose it, or rather chaslek on logan, and which translates to diet and traffic for your organization. quite the tongue twister and possibly as complicated the pronounced as it was to execute. in 1967, the swedes decided that a switch to driving on the right side of the road would benefit them since it would be across the board of traffic complications within notice neighbors, finland, n or we. since the country already use left hand drive cards, which could lead the quite sensibly drive on the right side of the road. and since the and this cause was expected to substantially increase over the next 2 years, they settled on the date for the switch. sweden had an existence campaign to make
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sure the drivers wouldn't forget that they were meant to swap sides. the dog and h logo was in blazing, doing everything from bikini bottoms to wife runs. and so there was even a contest with pop band competed to make a song about the switch, the winning entry, a song called to the to who the swenson. ok, so the light swinson performed by the tails stuff. the bottom part of the process with motor this accident fee that will major logistical challenges because everything from road signs to bus stops needed to be swapped. the operation costs sweden, a whopping 120000000 swedish krona. that straps to be 160000000 your earliest to day. and the country was left with the soul plus the buses with doors that opened
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out on the left side, which the eventually shipped to kenya and focused on speaking of pakistan. it's been suggested that the country also considered switching from driving on the left to the right to be could the colonial past. unfortunately, at the time a lot of state goods were moved using camels, which had all been changed to walk on the left side of the road. it has been a ledge. the g training office to miss campbell was to go on the right side of the road was to begin ask until plans for the switch will abandon the but it is the side of the road that's better and safer to drive on and is the left or the right side of the road, the actual right side for 2020 study hypothesize that there was a link between host see if list 10 or write 10 traffic was. and you'd have to do logical factors like which can you please so which of your eyes is dominant and which side of the brain you use more? the study, analyze existing accident quotes to try and find which side of the road is felicia
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for and was 50 years or so ago. there was some evidence that countries with lift pen traffic supported fuel road accidents. the study eventually didn't deliver consumers of results. instead it said because it's put into right hand and right i dominance driving on the left could possibly be safer. nonetheless, it's certainly not the most popular choice would. over, of course the has been other countries in dated season underwood had switch driving sides over the years. japan drives from the left side of the road, but after world war to okinawa was on the american control and to switch to driving on the drive. in contrast to the rest of the country, it was only in 1978 and what was called the 7 put the change over that attributed to driving on the left. iceland ideas here earlier in yemen, encana all switch driving size at various points in time to but perhaps the quote queue switches them all happened in march. on 6th december 1917 young myers been
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still quite boma switched from driving them the next site to the day because the country's leader ginger may win some feed exceeded. but since they don't need driven drive time drive cars until then they simply move them over to the right side of the road. a practice which continues to be in modern day. me and my possibly the only country in the world, right? hon. drive cause officially drive on the right side of the door. unusual to say the least. which side of it or do you want it? has there ever been a driving type in your body to it? we'd love to hear from you from the comment, the the, the miracle, the right 100 b,
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