Why do Europeans have car steering wheel on the right?

[repaeR]

I play Watchdogs Legion, I can't stop driving on right lanes and entering car from the left side :D lol Europeans...

[tsarac]

Publicado originalmente por videomike_Ultimate_Plushie:

Cus the brits are weird and wrong.

[AustrAlien2010]

Please go back to playing Watchdogs.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBxuVQ6lrAM

[AdahnGorion]

Publicado originalmente por repaeR:

I play Watchdogs Legion, I can't stop driving on right lanes and entering car from the left side :D lol Europeans...

We don´t

That is the short answer.

[kilésengati]

Did you know, the U.S. Virgin Islands drive on the left, despite most cars being left-hand drive.

[Pocahawtness]

Its all to do with people being mostly right handed.
In the UK it is said that horse-back riders would prefer to pass each other so they could take a swing at each other with a sword. To avoid confusion on bridges a law was passed in England in 1770 ish saying that people must drive on the left. Interestingly in Japan it was the steps leading to a temple there were getting confused! In most colonies they simply followed the English but in other countries they were influenced by different circumstances although it still came down to most of them being right handed. In America it is said that controlling large horse drawn wagons with a whip ( assuming you are right handed ) is much easier if you ride the last horse on the left and drive on the right. Similar situations caused many other countries to switch to the right.

[hypercybermegatron]

Publicado originalmente por Rupika:

Right handed gear shift makes more sense to me because more people are right handed

I think you're right about most people being right handed, but this makes driving on left side of the road make even more sense.

The reason being that you should always have at least one hand on the wheel and when you're shifting your dominant is always on the wheel, presuming driver is right handed.

For this reason, I think driving on left side of the road makes more sense.

However, if you're left handed then better to drive in a country where people drive on the right side of road.

[hypercybermegatron]

Left or right side of the road doesn't matter.

The real problem is countries stuck in the stone age who still use imperial system of measurement. Forget about MPH, there is no good reason not to use KPH when we have SI units. I mean come on, even US military uses metric.

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Publicado originalmente por hypercybermegatron:

Left or right side of the road doesn't matter.

The real problem is countries stuck in the stone age who still use imperial system of measurement. Forget about MPH, there is no good reason not to use KPH when we have SI units. I mean come on, even US military uses metric.

I agree.

[Pocahawtness]

Publicado originalmente por hypercybermegatron:

Left or right side of the road doesn't matter.

The real problem is countries stuck in the stone age who still use imperial system of measurement. Forget about MPH, there is no good reason not to use KPH when we have SI units. I mean come on, even US military uses metric.

It's just the public who are stupidly stubborn about this. Harking back to tradition. Anyone who has a job that uses units would usually prefer metric and or is already using metric. I mean some of the Imperial units go back to Roman times.

[hsf_]

Publicado originalmente por Rupika:

Right handed gear shift makes more sense to me because more people are right handed

Would you not want to have your strongest hand on the steering wheel, giving you maximum control over your vehicle?

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wtf

[Vinz Clortho]

Because it's the right side.

[Ramonkey]

Please don’t compare us Europeans to those weird British. They’re not part of our continent any more ever since Brexit happened

[Vinz Clortho]

Well you can tell Zelensky that we want the 3.8 billion military aid back then.