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[–] 31 points 7 months ago* (9 children)

Europe:

Power plugs
Train gauge and electricity
Online payment without credit cards

World wide:

Driving on the right

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  • [+] -14 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Driving on the left you mean. It's better since most people are right-handed.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Using your dominant hand for gear shift makes more sense than the alternative. Disagree?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    But that's just control. A tradeoff since there has been some evidence that reaction time, attention and accident avoidance work better the other way. Like sure, I might have more control over a knife by cutting towards myself (granny cut for apples and such), but it's still inherently more dangerous that the opposite side in any case besides 'everything goes perfectly'.

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