You answered my question. When I was there last (a long time ago) the distances were in miles, but the speed limits were in km/h. Without the km/h shown. As a passenger in a car, I was really scared of the speed until the driver explained this state of affairs. I was like this apparently for years and nobody seemed bothered. Stan
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net> wrote: > I rented a car in Ireland in 2009. It was a stick shift, wheel on the > right, drive on the left side of the road. It wasn’t difficult. > > > > We rented the car in Belfast, toured the shipyard where the Titanic and > the Olympic were built, drove to Downpatrick to see St. Patrick’s burial > site (at the Anglican cathedral there), then drove to Dublin. The minute we > crossed the border, I noticed: > > > > The road signs were in both English and Gaelic. > > Speed limits and distances were in km. > > I had to find a bank machine to get some euro notes. > > > > Carleton > > > > On 2016-07-11, 17:39, "USMA on behalf of Mark Henschel" < > usma-boun...@colostate.edu on behalf of 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> 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 home phone > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > > > _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list > USMA@colostate.edu > 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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