That effect is vastly overblown and doesn’t really matter.
Sure, if we only started driving today, we should pick the best side from all perspectives, but changing that now will just be extremely expensive for a very limited gain.
The same goes for switching any island nation from left to right.
But that’s less of a factor that just being more attentive (and primed to react) to action on your right hand side if right handed. It’s ‘sticky’ for me at least: I can switch to driving on the left relatively easily, but the reverse takes more effort, even though I have spent more time driving on the right in my lifetime.
Driving on the left you mean. It’s better since most people are right-handed.
Yeah, so use your left hand to steer and right hand for everything else.
Prioritise everything else over where the car goes? Madness.
Weaves wildly onto the pavement full of school kids but accurately adjusted the aircon
That effect is vastly overblown and doesn’t really matter.
Sure, if we only started driving today, we should pick the best side from all perspectives, but changing that now will just be extremely expensive for a very limited gain.
The same goes for switching any island nation from left to right.
Using your dominant hand for gear shift makes more sense than the alternative. Disagree?
But that’s less of a factor that just being more attentive (and primed to react) to action on your right hand side if right handed. It’s ‘sticky’ for me at least: I can switch to driving on the left relatively easily, but the reverse takes more effort, even though I have spent more time driving on the right in my lifetime.
No one has manuals anymore.
Even if you’re in an automatic, and shifting between P, R and D. I’d much rather do that with my dominant hand. Wouldn’t you?