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Re: RHD

To: "Vintage" <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: RHD
From: "Elton Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:52:06 -0600
----- Original Message From Carl Braun

> Yes, driving a RHD in the left hand lane (as intended) is tough because
> everything that is engrained in our thought pattern needs to be reversed.
> Cars approach intersections from the wrong direction in the wrong lane.
At
> a stop sign you need to first look right for traffic, then left, then
right
> again ... instead of the opposite in LHD countries.  Pedestrians stepping
> off the curb to the left  of the car are in front of you right away.  Yes,
> there is a lot of stuff to be aware of that is different than we are used
> to.

I have been known to make "right hand turns" by turning left 3 times in the
UK!
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Tony

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