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Article: Confidential.(Briefs)
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- Automotive News Europe
- Article date:
- August 23, 2004
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What if left-siders are right?
Which side to drive on has been an issue since people first hitched horses to carts.
While the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean quickly developed rules, whatever uniformity there might have been in the ancient world was lost when the Roman Empire fell.
After that, things went left or right according to the whim of locals, and the locals didn't keep good records.
Australian university lecturer Peter Kincaid sheds light on the issue in his book The Rule of the Road: An International Guide to History and Practice.
In the Middle Ages armed walkers or horsemen preferred to travel on the ...