Active 4 years, 11 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Krebto Krebto 1, 4 4 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. What research have you done into this issue before asking this question here? There are usability reasons for having it on one side or the other, if that is what you want to know. But if you are asking "if anybody have the skill to drive in both sides" then it probably is off-topic.
I've put this on hold. Not only because it's a very easily found question, but because of the comment stating you're looking for 'personal experience'. That would be the comment that you deleted where you stated: " I am asking about personal experience if anybody have the skill to drive in both sides ".
As a moderator here I get overview of comments that get deleted I can also get visibility of a lot of other actions that users carry out Show 2 more comments. Napoleon started to enforce left-hand driving when he conquered European countries like Germany, Switzerland, Poland, and many others. Of course, his staunch opponents like Britain stubbornly refused to do so, and maintained their right-hand driving tradition. In fact, Britain enforced this rule in all its colonies, which is the reason why India and most of its African colonies still use right-hand driving even today.
The United States, on the other hand, wanted to escape its British roots, so went towards left-hand driving, instead. Also, ten years after the U. Once these rules were set, the U. This feels like a strange thing to vary from country to country. So, why do American cars have the steering wheel on the left?
The argument for either side can never be settled from an objective standpoint. However, we can figure out why it is the way it is. Although there are plenty of stories and rumors that attempt to explain the origins of the two driving positions, the most likely explanation is something that might feel a bit out of LEFT field. According to Gear Patrol, these horse-drawn wagon s lacked a place to sit while piloting these hoss pulling teams.
Incidentally, this is also why stairs in towers twist to the right — so that defenders could better repel the attacks of the climbing assailants, who would have been holding their swords in their right hand. From left to right. It is believed that, over the course of the 18th century, driving on the right started to become more common on the other shore of the Atlantic, in France and in Russia because economic developments led to the introduction of four-horse carriages.
Rather than sitting on a coach box, the coachman would ride on the left rear horse so that he could spur on the team of horses by using his whip on the right. So France and the countries in which the famous commander reaped success took to driving on the right, while the rest of the world, with all the more stubbornness, insisted on keeping to the left.
The development of motoring in the United States contributed most to the unification of driving on the right. Even here, though, cars continued to have their steering wheel on the right for years. In the early 20th century, the steering wheel began to appear increasingly on the left. This was a natural progression: it enables those who are driving on the right to better gauge how to pass an oncoming car safely, and it also makes it easier for passengers to board from the pavement.
Over time, all countries in mainland Europe made the decision to drive on the right. One of the last European countries to do so was Sweden. It did not make the switch until , by which time automobile and also, for example, tram traffic was much busier.
Even so, the Swedes managed everything unexpectedly quickly — literally overnight, in fact. One evening, everyone parked their cars on the left, as dictated by the old law, but in the morning they set off on the right side of the road. Having said that, this switch-over had taken several years of careful planning.
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