note (and query)

[tigriswolf]

So, I'm watching Stuart: A Life Backwards on youtube.  (Taking a short break to post this.)

Anyway, Benedict Cumberbatch has the coolest name ever.

Also, I've noticed that it distracts me watching people drive on the wrong side of the car in movies set in England.  Or Europe as a whole, I guess.  I'm not sure about the driving habits in other places.

Does it distract y'all (anyone who drives on the other side of the road) when watching movies where people drive on the other side of the road?  (I'm thinking that sentence makes no sense outside of my head, sorry.)

Back to the Tom Hardy movie!

Comments

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

Nope, Europeans drive like Americans, but on smaller roads. Even Ireland, which is weird when you cross the border.

Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and bits of Middle East drive right-hand. :)

I tell you what's the weirdest thing about swapping sides of the car - coming back to Britain from somewhere like California or Luxembourg and going to the wrong door to drive home. Whoops! Ah well, I've only tried to drive on right-side of the road in Britain a few times ...

[tigriswolf]

I've only ever been to Canada, and that was before I could drive. I have gone to the driver's side when it wasn't my car and I wasn't the one meant to be driving, but at least the steering wheel never changed sides. *hee*

So how is it decided which side the wheel is on? The difference between those listed above and everywhere else, I mean.

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

I've always thought it was something to do with the French revolution. Previously, the left-hand-lane driving tactic had developed from the horse-riding days of yore, allowing knights and brigands and other highway users to draw their swords across the body and at each other.

I think Europe was the same until Napoleon had a hissy fit and decided to change it. America, being quite buddy-buddy with La France, copied.

Wikipedia supports me! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic)