Recently the idea came to my attention over another issue, an issue of
symmetry and asymmetry in physics, but I will not dive into that.
Rather instead I want to talk about this common day history.

Now I did make a halfhearted search as to why Britain made leftside
driving. The thing I found was in Ancient Roman times the leaders
marched in center so that they could draw their sword from the right
hand, leaving the marching on the left side. But that does not make
much sense with why the rest of Europe, who also were influenced by
Ancient Rome drive on right side.

What I want to explore more than the history is whether right hand or
left hand driving is superior.

And what I have resolved leads to interesting questions. Most people
are right handed, so is rightside driving superior to left? I would
think so because the critical driving in emergency would want the
righthand in best position.

Now are we also right footed or left footed? And is there a connection
between being righthanded and rightfooted? I do not know if
"footedness" is genetically linked to "handedness".

And there is something in physics about a "blindspot" in the mirror. So
if the rightside driving versus leftside driving has a less or more of
a blindspot.

And I suppose we can link handedness to footedness to left or
rightbrainness.

Now it is a common fact that most people are righthanded. So that
asymmetry alone would favor either rightside driving or leftside
driving. So I wonder if in England there are more accidents per drivers
than in the USA or other European countries. Accidents involving
"blindspots" in passing or use of car mirrors.

So I am touching on genetics to say that either rightside or leftside
driving is superior and it looks as though rightside driving is
superior for the fact that most people are righthanded and thus the use
of the righthand is favored by rightside driving.

---

But there is another avenue to explore whether one side is superior to
another side and that is the question of driving experience related to
other activities. Such as airplanes or ships or space travel and
whether our past experience with driving on rightside or leftside
hinders or helps us in a different medium. As far as I know, rules of
ship navigation are rules favoring rightside. And thus the British and
India which drive on leftside are vulnerable to confusion since they
habitized car driving whereas ship driving would or could lead to
accident.

---

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Driving on the right side, but in the left in the vehicle

"a_plutonium" wrote in message
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Recently the idea came to my attention over another issue, an issue of
symmetry and asymmetry in physics, but I will not dive into that.
Rather instead I want to talk about this common day history.

Now I did make a halfhearted search as to why Britain made leftside
driving. The thing I found was in Ancient Roman times the leaders
marched in center so that they could draw their sword from the right
hand, leaving the marching on the left side. But that does not make
much sense with why the rest of Europe, who also were influenced by
Ancient Rome drive on right side.

What I want to explore more than the history is whether right hand or
left hand driving is superior.

And what I have resolved leads to interesting questions. Most people
are right handed, so is rightside driving superior to left? I would
think so because the critical driving in emergency would want the
righthand in best position.

Now are we also right footed or left footed? And is there a connection
between being righthanded and rightfooted? I do not know if
"footedness" is genetically linked to "handedness".

And there is something in physics about a "blindspot" in the mirror. So
if the rightside driving versus leftside driving has a less or more of
a blindspot.

And I suppose we can link handedness to footedness to left or
rightbrainness.

Now it is a common fact that most people are righthanded. So that
asymmetry alone would favor either rightside driving or leftside
driving. So I wonder if in England there are more accidents per drivers
than in the USA or other European countries. Accidents involving
"blindspots" in passing or use of car mirrors.

So I am touching on genetics to say that either rightside or leftside
driving is superior and it looks as though rightside driving is
superior for the fact that most people are righthanded and thus the use
of the righthand is favored by rightside driving.

---

But there is another avenue to explore whether one side is superior to
another side and that is the question of driving experience related to
other activities. Such as airplanes or ships or space travel and
whether our past experience with driving on rightside or leftside
hinders or helps us in a different medium. As far as I know, rules of
ship navigation are rules favoring rightside. And thus the British and
India which drive on leftside are vulnerable to confusion since they
habitized car driving whereas ship driving would or could lead to
accident.

---

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

a_plutonium wrote:
Recently the idea came to my attention over another issue, an issue of
symmetry and asymmetry in physics, but I will not dive into that.
Rather instead I want to talk about this common day history.

Now I did make a halfhearted search as to why Britain made leftside
driving. The thing I found was in Ancient Roman times the leaders
marched in center so that they could draw their sword from the right
hand, leaving the marching on the left side. But that does not make
much sense with why the rest of Europe, who also were influenced by
Ancient Rome drive on right side.

What I want to explore more than the history is whether right hand or
left hand driving is superior.

And what I have resolved leads to interesting questions. Most people
are right handed, so is rightside driving superior to left? I would
think so because the critical driving in emergency would want the
righthand in best position.

Now are we also right footed or left footed? And is there a connection
between being righthanded and rightfooted? I do not know if
"footedness" is genetically linked to "handedness".

And there is something in physics about a "blindspot" in the mirror. So
if the rightside driving versus leftside driving has a less or more of
a blindspot.

And I suppose we can link handedness to footedness to left or
rightbrainness.

Now it is a common fact that most people are righthanded. So that
asymmetry alone would favor either rightside driving or leftside
driving. So I wonder if in England there are more accidents per drivers
than in the USA or other European countries. Accidents involving
"blindspots" in passing or use of car mirrors.

So I am touching on genetics to say that either rightside or leftside
driving is superior and it looks as though rightside driving is
superior for the fact that most people are righthanded and thus the use
of the righthand is favored by rightside driving.

---

But there is another avenue to explore whether one side is superior to
another side and that is the question of driving experience related to
other activities. Such as airplanes or ships or space travel and
whether our past experience with driving on rightside or leftside
hinders or helps us in a different medium. As far as I know, rules of
ship navigation are rules favoring rightside. And thus the British and
India which drive on leftside are vulnerable to confusion since they
habitized car driving whereas ship driving would or could lead to
accident.

---

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

I've got a much simpler idea. You know how we make hand signals while
riding a bike? We sometimes may have to use our hands to signal, and
which hand would you rather have off the wheel? The left or the right?
Given that most people are right handed, they would rather have their
right hand on the wheel, meaning that their left hand would be
signaling.

"a_plutonium" wrote in message
ups.com...
Recently the idea came to my attention over another issue, an issue of
symmetry and asymmetry in physics, but I will not dive into that.
Rather instead I want to talk about this common day history.

Now I did make a halfhearted search as to why Britain made leftside
driving. The thing I found was in Ancient Roman times the leaders
marched in center so that they could draw their sword from the right
hand, leaving the marching on the left side. But that does not make
much sense with why the rest of Europe, who also were influenced by
Ancient Rome drive on right side.

What I want to explore more than the history is whether right hand or
left hand driving is superior.

And what I have resolved leads to interesting questions. Most people
are right handed, so is rightside driving superior to left? I would
think so because the critical driving in emergency would want the
righthand in best position.

Now are we also right footed or left footed? And is there a connection
between being righthanded and rightfooted? I do not know if
"footedness" is genetically linked to "handedness".

And there is something in physics about a "blindspot" in the mirror. So
if the rightside driving versus leftside driving has a less or more of
a blindspot.

And I suppose we can link handedness to footedness to left or
rightbrainness.

Now it is a common fact that most people are righthanded. So that
asymmetry alone would favor either rightside driving or leftside
driving. So I wonder if in England there are more accidents per drivers
than in the USA or other European countries. Accidents involving
"blindspots" in passing or use of car mirrors.

So I am touching on genetics to say that either rightside or leftside
driving is superior and it looks as though rightside driving is
superior for the fact that most people are righthanded and thus the use
of the righthand is favored by rightside driving.

---

But there is another avenue to explore whether one side is superior to
another side and that is the question of driving experience related to
other activities. Such as airplanes or ships or space travel and
whether our past experience with driving on rightside or leftside
hinders or helps us in a different medium. As far as I know, rules of
ship navigation are rules favoring rightside. And thus the British and
India which drive on leftside are vulnerable to confusion since they
habitized car driving whereas ship driving would or could lead to
accident.

---

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies


Europe used to travel on the left. This was so that your sword hand was free
to face oncoming travellers. Napoleon changed things around in France and
this spread with his conquests. It looks like the Yanks followed the French!

On 22 Oct 2006 22:42:30 -0700, "a_plutonium"
wrote:

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

The actual history is that we over here --------- have always driven
on the left hand side of the road, as you say from Roman times. It was
Napoleon in France who made the change, and propagated that change
throughout Europe. That change then carried over to Leftpondia because
of the links between the American colonies and revolutionary France,
and in the fullness of time Canada had no realistic option but to
follow suit. Presumably the rest of Central and Southern America fell
under the Merkan spell for Monroe doctrinal reasons, Sweden changed
from left to right some time in the sixties, I believe. The rest of
the world that didn't come under French or American influence
(including Japan) drives on the left (just under half the countries in
the world, in fact).

As far as which side is "better", I don't think it makes a ha'p'orth
of difference either way, I have done both equally happily. I have
also driven "left-hand-drive" vehicles on the left here, and British
vehicles on the continent; that, too, is possible although not so
desirable of course.


And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Rod wrote:

Europe used to travel on the left. This was so that your sword hand was free
to face oncoming travellers. Napoleon changed things around in France and
this spread with his conquests. It looks like the Yanks followed the French!

Us Yanks have never had much use for swords. We settled on this
continent after the development of firearms.

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA

On a sunny day (22 Oct 2006 22:42:30 -0700) it happened "a_plutonium"
wrote in
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The political solution is to drive in the middle.

Enlightened Soul Jan Panteltje wrote in :

On a sunny day (22 Oct 2006 22:42:30 -0700) it happened "a_plutonium"
wrote in
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The political solution is to drive in the middle.

Actually I have heard that the reason for left driving comes
from the UK swordsman, who were mostly right-handed, and wanted their opponent
on their right side, so as to be able to chop the heads easier.

In current day cars the rocket launchers are simply controlled from the driver
seat with the right hand.

Regards
Robin H.

The issue of driving on the left came from the dark ages, as most
people were right handed they preferred their fellow knights to pass on
their right so they could use their right hand to lift the visor of
their armour, This is exactly where the salute came from, as yanks
salute using there left hand it stands to reason that this is more
probable.

a_plutonium wrote:
Recently the idea came to my attention over another issue, an issue of
symmetry and asymmetry in physics, but I will not dive into that.
Rather instead I want to talk about this common day history.

Now I did make a halfhearted search as to why Britain made leftside
driving. The thing I found was in Ancient Roman times the leaders
marched in center so that they could draw their sword from the right
hand, leaving the marching on the left side. But that does not make
much sense with why the rest of Europe, who also were influenced by
Ancient Rome drive on right side.

What I want to explore more than the history is whether right hand or
left hand driving is superior.

And what I have resolved leads to interesting questions. Most people
are right handed, so is rightside driving superior to left? I would
think so because the critical driving in emergency would want the
righthand in best position.

Now are we also right footed or left footed? And is there a connection
between being righthanded and rightfooted? I do not know if
"footedness" is genetically linked to "handedness".

And there is something in physics about a "blindspot" in the mirror. So
if the rightside driving versus leftside driving has a less or more of
a blindspot.

And I suppose we can link handedness to footedness to left or
rightbrainness.

Now it is a common fact that most people are righthanded. So that
asymmetry alone would favor either rightside driving or leftside
driving. So I wonder if in England there are more accidents per drivers
than in the USA or other European countries. Accidents involving
"blindspots" in passing or use of car mirrors.

So I am touching on genetics to say that either rightside or leftside
driving is superior and it looks as though rightside driving is
superior for the fact that most people are righthanded and thus the use
of the righthand is favored by rightside driving.

---

But there is another avenue to explore whether one side is superior to
another side and that is the question of driving experience related to
other activities. Such as airplanes or ships or space travel and
whether our past experience with driving on rightside or leftside
hinders or helps us in a different medium. As far as I know, rules of
ship navigation are rules favoring rightside. And thus the British and
India which drive on leftside are vulnerable to confusion since they
habitized car driving whereas ship driving would or could lead to
accident.

---

Now I wonder if England made its rule of leftside driving just to "be
different" from the Yanks in past history. So they heard the Yanks
decided on rightside and then they decided "lets go leftside". Or
another possibility is that the decision as to what side of the road to
travel in England came down to a person decision, and that person was
lefthanded and so he decided that England would be leftsided driving.

I am not really concerned so much about the actual history as I am
concerned about the scientific superiority of one side over another
side.

And whether if there was no "human genetics involved" that the physics
would be perfectly symmetrical as to either right or left and neither
has a superiority. Now that maybe an assumption that has to be proven.
But it is a fact that genetics is involved and those genetics seem to
favor rightside driving.

My email is but it is set to Exclusive. To get
on my email list post to one of my threads asking such, or my phone
answering machine 605-624-7055. The only way to make email work is by a
contact-list which trashcans all other unsolicited email. I never get
any junk email now.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

wrote in message
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|
| Rod wrote:
|
| Europe used to travel on the left. This was so that your sword hand was
free
| to face oncoming travellers. Napoleon changed things around in France
and
| this spread with his conquests. It looks like the Yanks followed the
French!
|
| Us Yanks have never had much use for swords. We settled on this
| continent after the development of firearms.
|
| Tom Davidson
| Richmond, VA

Is that why your unsporting "sportsmen" wear armour?
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/football/...vick_getty.jpg