08 Feb 07
Originally posted by stocken😵 You have to take into account that there was much less traffic back then. You also have to take into account that most Swedes already drove left-hand drive vehicles, which was one reason for the switch.
unless I'm mistaking there weren't too
many problems when we changed from left to right in Sweden (though, of
course you'd have to take into account the superior intellect and
flexibility of the average swede).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
The last bit is interesting: "On the Monday following Dagen H, there were 125 reported traffic accidents, compared with a range of 130 to 198 for previous Mondays. No fatal traffic accidents were attributed to the switch. However, many older people gave up driving rather than learn to cope with the new rule of the road. Experts had suggested that changing to driving on the right would reduce accidents, because drivers would have a better view of the road ahead. Indeed, fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents dropped sharply as a result. However, the accident rate rose back to its original position within two years."
Maybe we should switch every two years?
12 Feb 07
Originally posted by stockenwot? you mean he was driving on the right????
...learn to drive on the right side of the road?
This morning a member of the british empire came roaring in his car on
the wrong side of the road and collided front first with another car. The
driver of the other car is now dead, so it's tragic, but you can't really be
mad at this englishman. After all, if I came to England and suddenly had
to si ...[text shortened]... h has shrunk so much you can easily get to the other side of
the globe in a matter of hours.