Question-
Jake, I have always wondered why don’t the American’s and the English switch driving sides. Either way would work, either driving side or lane direction. That would make the mailmans job alot simpler. “I know from personal experience, I drive a street sweeper. It has controls on both sides. Plus I am a government worker so I can drive on whatever damn side of the road I want.”
Name, Joe Jacobsen
Answer–
Joe, it is good to hear from you man! The answer to your question takes us back to colonial times. In the mid 1770’s, on the American Continent, there was a bit of a struggle going on in the New England area. All of the Yanks were hating on their British King and trying to find a way to get out from under his thumb. Back then there were no motorized cars. It was all horse and carriage on the road. There was no “right” or “wrong” side of the road. The system of driving back then was called Euromerge. This system worked by everyone just trying to all go at the same time in whatever direction on which ever side of the road they wanted to. A long with many things that carried over from Great Britain, the Yankees decided that the Euromerge system was totally retarded and decided standardize vehicular transportation on the road. They did this by creating signs and rules, one of which made it uniform procedure to drive on the right side of the road. Of course, as soon as the Yankees did this, the Brits, as with most things, has to copy, but put their own snooty British Eurotarded twist on it. So they decided that if the Colonists were going to drive on the right side of the road, then in Great Britain the correct side would be the left. The Brits still do this kind of thing in today’s world. For example, Americans brush their teeth, so the Brit’s don’t etc… As for the steering wheel being on the left side of the vehicle; blame that on Henry Ford. His parents were Irish immigrants (Ireland is part of the UK= under British control= Eurotarded). He obviously never delivered mail or drove a street sweeper.
Hope that answers your question, Jake