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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

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Persephone · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject:

I once got my kicks on Route 66!

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spidermage · Apple Venus Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 1707

Your avatar makes me smile every time, Persephone.

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Spastic Minnow · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject:

To get back to the subject at hand.

How the heck did the drivers get stuck on opposite sides anyways? I figure the biggest problem in standardizing it now is the driver position. But it also has to be the biggest obstacle in globalization of some auto makers as well.

It really should have been standardized from the get-go of automaking. I wonder if it was a business decision. Some Brit or American decided to go the opposite side so there wouldn't be competition.

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Persephone · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:24 am Post subject:

spidermage wrote:

Your avatar makes me smile every time, Persephone.

Nothing pleases me more, Spidey luv!

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Jeff Truzzi · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:33 pm Post subject:

I guess you can't really drive down the middle of the road.
Not without bad results, anyway.

So what do they call one way streets in Britain?