Much can be said about which side of the road to drive on, but have you
ever wondered why we in the U.S. drive from the left side of the
vehicle?

There really is a logical and practical reason for this:  When driving
down the road, bugs hit the windshield, and careful, expensive research
showed that more bugs hit the right side of the windshield than the
left, so to help in driver vision, we in the U.S. opted to drive our
cars where the least concentration of bug remnants would occur - the
left side of the car (if you're viewing the car from behind).   8-)
 

Raymond Shahan

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Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming: 
-- WOW!!! What a Ride!!!

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Guess this must be where all our US MAIL vehicles are made..... :-) 

I can remember (with fright and fondness) being driven around by my 
parents in Harrogate with my mother dispelling all the virtues of 
conducting oneself as if you were an Ambassador from the US in England
and 
while doing so electing (quite naturally) to go under a train bridge ON 
THE LEFT SIDE of the road and ending up at a round-about GOING THE WRONG

WAY. There are still parts of me that 'pucker' at the mere 
remembrance.......

I actually learned and received my first drivers license in England.

Regards,

Reid E. Baxter

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