RE: What side of the road? No Audi Content

["Ian J Haseltine" <Jim_Haseltine@classic.msn.com>]

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From: 	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net on behalf of Paul Nicholson
>Most of the world drives on the right side of the road. Exceptions are the
>generally the countries of the former British Empire. Australia, NZ, Hong
>Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore,
>Malaysia, South Africa, Kenya, a hodgepodge of other African countries, and
>Japan all drive on the wrong side of the road.

Wrong side? Fighting talk my friend, but lets not start that again.

It would indeed be much easier to list the countries that drive on the left.
A few countries have changed from left side to right side. One of the 
Scandinavian countries (Sweden I think) changed at a particular time and date. 
At that time all drivers on the road had to pull to the kerb and stop. After 
10 minutes they were then allowed to restart, but travelling on the other side 
of the road.
I was at a dinner some years ago where one of the speakers was an engineer 
from the DoT. He attributed the strange design of new road intersections to 
the possiblity that at some time in the future the UK may be required to drive 
on the right - not as far fetched as it sounds if you consider some of the 
directives passed by the EC.
A last tale - possibly untrue - the original plans for the road change of a 
central African country called for a staggered change, first sunday all 
vehicles over 10 tons would change, second sunday all vehicles over 3 tons and 
thrid sunday all other vehicles.
Having driven in Mozambique and India, at times it appears that this is what 
is happening anyway but the cause is usually an unwritten rule that you drive 
in the shade and avoid the pot holes.

Jim Haseltine
88 Ur quattro