[LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country
LNphoto
largeformat@f32.net
Fri Nov 21 23:08:02 2003
okay try
http:/home.twmi.rr.com/lnphoto/buick.jpg
Les
On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 10:54 PM, LNphoto wrote:
> I've never gotten to drive on the left side of the road (well LEGALLY)
> but I have driven on the right side with a right hand drive car.
>
> http://home.twmi.rr.com/buick.jpg
>
> Les
> On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 10:23 PM, Diane Maher wrote:
>
>> I went to the UK last year and was told by a lady who lives in
>> Australia
>> to just keep the driver to the center of the road and I should be
>> fine.
>> That is the way we drive in the US, i.e. with the driver to the center
>> of the road, but most of the time, people freak out about driving on
>> the
>> wrong side and don't see it any other way except right or left. It
>> was
>> an interesting experience, though I did scare one guy who rode with
>> me.
>> The other guy who rode with me was just fine with my driving.
>>
>> I did have some problems with knowing exactly where the left edge of
>> the
>> car was, plus I didn't have a clue regarding what the various gears
>> (1,
>> 2, 3) on an automatic are for (Hey, I live in the Midwest, all the
>> roads
>> are flat!) and I never got the bright lights sorted out. I drove
>> through N. Wales at 3 am holding the bright lights switch on. I think
>> it took half an hour to go 9 miles. Oh well, once I was on the
>> highway,
>> I was fine again.
>>
>> I found that the gears had something to do with going up and down
>> steep
>> hills. It turns out that I was trying to do the bright lights
>> backwards, but one doesn't think about that at 3 am.
>>
>> Diane :)
>>
>> A serene state of mind is a clear heart without ill feelings or a
>> guilty
>> conscience. It gives one the ability to surpass his own skills.
>> Schwarz Bruder - Mobile Fighter G-Gundam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:16:42 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Brock Nanson <brock@nanson.org>
>> To: largeformat@f32.net
>> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country.
>> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
>>
>> What I find is that I naturally want to sit my butt in the same wheel
>> rut,
>> regardless of which side of the car the steering wheel is on! What
>> that
>>
>> means is that when I go to a RHD country, I tend to hug the shoulder.
>> After a few hours that tendency starts to go away, but I have to be
>> aware
>> of it until it does!
>>
>> I don't think I'd want to find out what my instinctive response to a
>> crisis would be. Not sure which way I'd swerve, or if I'd wind up on
>> the
>> wrong side of the road.
>>
>> The wheel rut /butt cheeks problem isn't peculiar only to me... My
>> first
>>
>> trip to Australia lasted 8 hours. Landed at midnight and by 8 AM my
>> travel buddy had fallen victim to this problem. Asphalt was up
>> several
>> inches from what little shoulder existed and when the left wheel
>> dropped
>>
>> over, he overcorrected, lost control, and found the only gum tree in
>> the
>>
>> field next to the road. 100 km/hr to zero faster than possible even
>> with
>> ABS brakes. Lined my side of the car up with the tree pretty well
>> ;-) -
>>
>> He walked away and I waited for the jaws of life. There was a silver
>> lining - I met my future wife while in hospital!
>>
>> I've driven many 1000 km's since that time without a problem, but
>> having been bitten once, I'm more than twice shy...
>>
>> Brock
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, john frost wrote:
>>
>>> When I was over there for the f32 workshop, Ada did all the driving.
>> She
>>> wanted me to drive, so I clumb in, looked up the street, then across
>> the
>>> car to the outside mirror, and discovered that the bicycle path I was
>>> looking at was too narrow for that other car, and us to! I don't
>> believe
>>> that I had even started the engine before she pulled me out and she
>>> drove the 2 weeks we were there. She never had a problem, but I sure
>>> did. She kept clipping grass on the berms, and the mailboxes and
>>> power
>>
>>> poles were hiding in there, too.
>>>
>>> john (:>))) it warn't too bad after I quit watching the road !!!
>>>
>>> Jim Hemenway wrote:
>>>> For me it's those rotaries, (roundabouts). I'm used to the counter
>>>> clockwise circling here in New England but encountering the first
>> one in
>>>> the UK was scary and very confusing.
>>>>
>>>> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alan Davenport wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone have thoughts on this --- is this do-able -- cost?? My
>> desire
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> this is not to avoid having to drive on the wrong side of the road
>> (I
>>>>>> often
>>>>>> do that here :( - but, it was to have the advantage of a local
>> guide
>>>>>> and (if
>>>>>> I'm fortunate) perhaps an extra back to help pack some camera
>> equipment
>>>>>> in --- A necessity if I take both the 4x5 and 8x10 for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It isn't as big a problem as you imagine. Remember that the
>> steering
>>>>> wheel
>>>>> is also on the other side of the car, so it takes very little time
>> to get
>>>>> accustomed to the arrangement. Foot pedals are the same as you're
>>>>> used to.
>>>>> Of greater concern may be what to do if you meet a lorry (truck!)
>> on
>>>>> one of
>>>>> those little lanes with a stone wall on either side. You may be
>> taking
>>>>> "your
>>>>> half" out of your side of the road, but when the lorry's half
>> amounts
>>>>> to more
>>>>> like 2/3 of the road... scary stuff no matter which side you're on.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
>> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:07 PM
>> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country.
>>
>>
>>> No,
>>>
>>> I have no problem at all driving there. I was just wondering the
>>> feasibility of hiring a guide/driver to take me to those quaint no
>> tourist
>>> spots.
>>>
>>> Vince Dobson
>>> Visions In Nature
>>> www.VisionsInNature.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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