In Australia we also drive on the wrong side of the road in cars with manual gearboxes and negotiate roundabouts clockwise in speeds measured in kilometres per hour. It’s a miracle we’re not all dead from traffic accidents.
It’s going to be a cold 10ºC today in Melbourne Best wishes, Peter Goodyear > On 12 Jul 2016, at 07:39, Mark Henschel <mwhensch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting thing about the British and their roundabouts, and driving on the > left side of the road. > > I was in a car being driven around England a few years back. The driver sits > on the right, but the gear shift is in the left, in the middle of the car. So > since they travel on the opposite side of the road, their roundabouts turn > clockwise, not counter clockwise as ours do. > > So here we are with the driver on the right, her left hand on the gear shift, > right hand on the steering wheel, left foot on the clutch and right foot on > the accelerator, and attempting to go counterclockwise into a roundabout. All > the time looking right and turning left. At least in the USA we can use our > best hand for most of us (right handers) on the gear shift and just hold the > steering wheel with the left hand, look left and turn right, but I imagine it > is a challenge to constantly use your left hand to shift gears if you are > right handed. > > Few European cars have automatic transmissions. Even when I rented cars in > Germany, they were usually stick shift but diesel engines. Hmmm. wonder if I > got one of the cars VW cheated on the emissions with? > > Mark > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 4:15 PM, John Dunlop <jrdun...@igc.org > <mailto:jrdun...@igc.org>> wrote: > I just received a note from Queen Elizabeth. She has declared that we are > flubbing democracy, and therefore, effectively immediately, our independence > is revoked. Among the changes she will implement in the country formerly > known as the USA: > >> 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start >> driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will >> go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion >> tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the >> British sense of humour. > > John > > > > John Dunlop > jrdun...@igc.org personal email > 612-374-2181 <tel:612-374-2181> home phone > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu <mailto:USMA@colostate.edu> > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > <https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma> > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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