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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 December 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction Countries by direction of road traffic, c. 2020 ⇅ Left-hand traffic ⇵ Right-hand traffic Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of ...
You’re probably aware that around 30% of the world’s countries drive on the left while 70% drive on the right. But have you considered why? In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte had a big hand in it ...
Some people credit Henry Ford with standardizing US traffic on the right side of the road because, in 1908, Ford Motor Co. put the steering wheel on the left side of the hugely popular Model T ...
The exception is the US Virgin Islands, where people drive on the left. [2] Most states in the United States enforce priority to the right at uncontrolled intersections, where motorists must yield to the right. [3] The two most important differences between U.S. traffic rules and foreign countries' traffic rules are as follows:
Driving on the Left. In the US, we drive on the right-hand side, but many countries drive on the left. Make sure you know if you’ll be driving on the opposite side you’re used to so you can ...
More than 90 percent of Swedes drove left-hand-drive vehicles, [5] and this led to many head-on collisions when passing on narrow two-lane highways. [6] City buses were among the very few vehicles that conformed to the normal opposite-steering wheel rule, being right-hand-drive (RHD). [7]
Before 1938, Czechoslovakia drove on the left. In 1925, Czechoslovakia accepted the Paris convention and undertook to change to right-hand traffic "within a reasonable time frame". In 1931, the government decreed to change over within five years, which did not happen. The main obstacles were financial cost and widespread opposition in rural areas.
There’s a new set-up at the I-95 exit and entrance at Glades Road.