Left-hand traffic or right-hand traffic ... How to navigate, what is better, more convenient, what is more rational in operation, finally?
In fact, there is not much between right and leftdifference. Left-hand traffic first began to take place in England (in many European countries, on the contrary, it is right-handed). So it went that in the former English colonies the left-hand one remained, since the change required the reformatting of the psychology of the inhabitants and was also quite expensive!
Also the railway traffic. In Argentina - the left-hand, and in many countries of Europe, although the cars obey the right-hand! So it happened, this is the tradition.
Most of the world's inhabitants are right-handed people.Therefore, the expediency of the most part of the right-wing movement is not in doubt. But the countries, in which the left-hand movement is legalized, it turns out, is not so little. 28% of all roads on the planet are left-sided. On the left side travel 34% of the entire earth population, and this is not so little. As already mentioned, the main reason for this was the colonial policy in England. Left-hand traffic spread in the former British colonies and territories, once dependent on Britain.
Here are the countries of Europe, where car trafficleft-hand: Great Britain, Malta, Ireland, Cyprus. In Asia, these are Japan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Macau, Pakistan, Thailand, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore and some others. As you can see, there are quite a few of them! In Oceania: Australia, Fiji, New Guinea, New Zealand. In Africa: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique. In Latin America: Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname. Still left-hand traffic in Japan. You can list and transfer!
In history there were even precedents, when wholethe state passed from left to right-handed and vice versa. The country Sweden for one day replaced the left-hand traffic of cars to the right-hand one. This happened in 1967. America, trying to deny its "Anglo-Dependence", made it easier - not the same as in England. Namely, this country has made an indisputable contribution to the development of the world automotive industry. And many countries of the world took an example from it!
Let's add, that at modern cars a place forthe driver is closer to the side of the oncoming traffic flow: on the right in the left-hand, on the left in the countries with right-hand traffic respectively. This creates additional convenience for the driver, broadens the field of view and gives the ability to respond faster.
And more from history:in Russia in the Middle Ages, the rules of motion (right-handed) formed themselves and were observed as the most natural. And the Empress Elizabeth, in the distant 1752, issued a decree on right-hand traffic on the streets of Russian cities for cabmen and carriages.
And in the west the first law that would regulate traffic through the streets was the English Bill of 1756, in which the movement along the London Bridge was to be carried out on the left side.
