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Wednesday, 10 December 2008

The left is U.K., and the right is U.S.

Hello there,

People always take the usual life for granted...

On the way to my office this afternoon, I drove along the right side of the road, a vision suddenly came to my mind. Many years ago, I went to Auckland, New Zealand to visit my brother-in-law, I drove two and half hours from Auckland to Rotorua, oops, the driving direction of the left side is totally different from the right side of Taiwan. All the 3 Taiwanese passengers who were in my car were all scared and carefully helped me watching the cars which would show up from the directions we were not aware.

The style of New Zealand is more like U.K., Its driving direction is the left side of the road, the same as U.K.
Taiwan, it learns from U.S. more than from U.K., we drive along the right side of the road as American do.

Therefore, if a car’s direction is along the right side of the road in a country, it is affected by U.S. Otherwise, it is a U.K. style.

The photo I took as below is the cars which drove along the right sight of the road this afternoon in Taiwan.

Street cars in Taiwan


Best wishes & safe drive.

James Wu (Wu Zhih Cheng), Taiwan.

Comments

i've found it interesting

Hi James, here the standard is right driven. Two summers ago I spend a week in Edimburgh, at the begining I thought to rent a car, but after a few days, finally I desisted for driving there. In your pic there is a bike. Is it usual in Ilan? See you, Toni

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