That's why we are driving on the right side of the road
This goes back to colonial times.
The world can be divided into two camps: left-hand drivers and drivers to the right side of the road. Now the first are mainly composed of citizens in the United Kingdom and its former colonies-Australia, India, South Africa, etc. - whose driving habits were placed in the stone by the 1835 law of the 1835 motorway. (according to experts, because the horse-place of traffic had eventually asymmetré to the left.)
But what explains why the Americans have decided to drive on theother side of the road?
According to People from the Federal Highway Administration, the practice of traveling to the right of the road goes back to the horse and buggy days of colonial America. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people travel mainly by wagon. And, because of the design of the Conestoga wagons - the most popular model of the time drivers usually sat down to the left: the breakage lever on Conestogas was on the left side of the vehicle.
In addition, according toAlbert Rose, the "unofficial historian" of the FHA "" transport pilots "traveled right to look closer to the game of the left." In other words, a left driver could easily see the opposite side of the road while driving - or rather, galloping - on the right. And, by rose, this practice has a bloody background.
Roses noted that it was a common practice at the time when such travelers wear arms thrown to the left hip. As a result, it was easier to use his right hand to get out of the said weapon to deal with a potentially hostile traveler on the road.
The practice of right-hand conduct has become a second nature which, in 1792, Pennsylvania has adopted a law designating that all traffic is right. In 1804, New York followed an amount. And at the moment when the civil war was ongoing, each state of the nation was carrying trolleys on the right.
When automobiles arrived at the turn of the twentieth century, everyone stuck to the tradition and continued to drive right. Now, all federal and federal laws, applicable to inter-step highways - have a law on books specifically designating that all vehicles, not only horses pulled by horses, remain on the right side of the road. (Pennsylvania did not spend theirUpdated version until 1976.)
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