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  2. Left- and right-hand traffic - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 March 2025. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 Left-hand traffic Right-hand traffic No data Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of ...

  3. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Jughandle or Jersey left A type of ramp or slip road where instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road (in countries that drive on the right). Junction A location where multiple roads intersect, allowing vehicular traffic to change from one road to another.

  4. Sinistral and dextral - Wikipedia

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    Movement is sinistral (left-handed) if the block on the other side of the fault moves to the left, or if straddling the fault the left side moves toward the observer. Movement is dextral (right-handed) if the block on the other side of the fault moves to the right, or if straddling the fault the right side moves toward the observer. [4]

  5. Here’s why Americans drive on the right and the UK drives on ...

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    It turns out that about 30% of the world’s countries mandate left-side driving and another 70% or so stay to the right. How it got that way is a winding tale. ... I’m right-handed, like most ...

  6. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    The Latin adjective sinister means ' left ' as well as ' unlucky ', and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, including the English words sinister (meaning both 'evil' and 'on the bearer's left on a coat of arms') and ambisinister meaning 'awkward or clumsy with both or either hand'.

  7. Hook turn - Wikipedia

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    A hook turn (Australian English) or two-stage turn (British English), also known as a Copenhagen Left (in reference to cyclists specifically and in countries they are ridden on the right), [1] is a road cycling manoeuvre or a motor vehicle traffic-control mechanism in which vehicles that would normally turn from the innermost lane of an intersection instead turn from the outermost lane, across ...

  8. Homochirality - Wikipedia

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    In biology, 19 of the 20 natural amino acids are homochiral, being L-chiral (left-handed), while sugars are D-chiral (right-handed). [1] Homochirality can also refer to enantiopure substances in which all the constituents are the same enantiomer (a right-handed or left-handed version of an atom or molecule), but some sources discourage this use ...

  9. Fact check: Flipped photo falsely claims Biden has a body ...

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    A photo included in the post has been digitally flipped to make Biden appear as if he is writing with his left hand. Biden has confirmed in an interview that he is right-handed. Our fact-check ...