THAT is a great site! :dancer2:
i've been wondering about that bit extensively as i've bounced back and forth this summer. also, when my family moved to sweden, finland was RH, sweden LH. in sept 1967 they changed it back to RH. for a while that was ...interesting. for about a month nothing drastic happened as everybody expected everybody to screw up. then, after that people started to relax and oi vei...
looking it up i see that the swedes had a hard time deciding:
I Sverige fanns på 1700-talet en kunglig förordning att postvagnar skulle hålla till höger vid möte på väg. Denna förordning ändrades 1734 och vänstertrafik fastställdes. Förordningen upphörde att gälla 1868 och fram till 1916, då vänstertrafik åter fastställdes i en förordning, gällde praxis vilket innebar vänstertrafik av hävd. Högertrafik infördes den 3 september 1967.
by royal decree the postal carriers were to keep to the right when meeting anyone on the road. 1734 it was changed to LH. 1868 to the Right. 1916 to the Left. 1967 to Right. [not a translation.]
:crazy:
personally i'd prefer Left. why? well, it's to do with driving; being strongly R handed, i'm thinking it would make sense to shift with Left and steer with Right.
also: instinct. i'm not kidding, it's the same as people entering a room and almost guaranteed they will circle the premises to the Left. in a R hand drive car you have your heart on the 'safe' side. ditto walking a path on the L side.
still, got almost flattened by a doubledecker in london...