[LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country
stuart phillips
largeformat@f32.net
Fri Nov 21 23:20:06 2003
Touch small for a fire engine, isn't it?
----- Original Message -----
From: "LNphoto" <LNphoto@twmi.rr.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country
> okay try
> http:/home.twmi.rr.com/lnphoto/buick.jpg
>
> Les
> On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 10:54 PM, LNphoto wrote:
>
> > I've never gotten to drive on the left side of the road (well LEGALLY)
> > but I have driven on the right side with a right hand drive car.
> >
> > http://home.twmi.rr.com/buick.jpg
> >
> > Les
> > On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 10:23 PM, Diane Maher wrote:
> >
> >> I went to the UK last year and was told by a lady who lives in
> >> Australia
> >> to just keep the driver to the center of the road and I should be
> >> fine.
> >> That is the way we drive in the US, i.e. with the driver to the
center
> >> of the road, but most of the time, people freak out about driving on
> >> the
> >> wrong side and don't see it any other way except right or left. It
> >> was
> >> an interesting experience, though I did scare one guy who rode with
> >> me.
> >> The other guy who rode with me was just fine with my driving.
> >>
> >> I did have some problems with knowing exactly where the left edge of
> >> the
> >> car was, plus I didn't have a clue regarding what the various gears
> >> (1,
> >> 2, 3) on an automatic are for (Hey, I live in the Midwest, all the
> >> roads
> >> are flat!) and I never got the bright lights sorted out. I drove
> >> through N. Wales at 3 am holding the bright lights switch on. I
think
> >> it took half an hour to go 9 miles. Oh well, once I was on the
> >> highway,
> >> I was fine again.
> >>
> >> I found that the gears had something to do with going up and down
> >> steep
> >> hills. It turns out that I was trying to do the bright lights
> >> backwards, but one doesn't think about that at 3 am.
> >>
> >> Diane :)
> >>
> >> A serene state of mind is a clear heart without ill feelings or a
> >> guilty
> >> conscience. It gives one the ability to surpass his own skills.
> >> Schwarz Bruder - Mobile Fighter G-Gundam
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:16:42 -0800 (PST)
> >> From: Brock Nanson <brock@nanson.org>
> >> To: largeformat@f32.net
> >> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country.
> >> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
> >>
> >> What I find is that I naturally want to sit my butt in the same wheel
> >> rut,
> >> regardless of which side of the car the steering wheel is on! What
> >> that
> >>
> >> means is that when I go to a RHD country, I tend to hug the shoulder.
> >> After a few hours that tendency starts to go away, but I have to be
> >> aware
> >> of it until it does!
> >>
> >> I don't think I'd want to find out what my instinctive response to a
> >> crisis would be. Not sure which way I'd swerve, or if I'd wind up on
> >> the
> >> wrong side of the road.
> >>
> >> The wheel rut /butt cheeks problem isn't peculiar only to me... My
> >> first
> >>
> >> trip to Australia lasted 8 hours. Landed at midnight and by 8 AM my
> >> travel buddy had fallen victim to this problem. Asphalt was up
> >> several
> >> inches from what little shoulder existed and when the left wheel
> >> dropped
> >>
> >> over, he overcorrected, lost control, and found the only gum tree in
> >> the
> >>
> >> field next to the road. 100 km/hr to zero faster than possible even
> >> with
> >> ABS brakes. Lined my side of the car up with the tree pretty well
> >> ;-) -
> >>
> >> He walked away and I waited for the jaws of life. There was a silver
> >> lining - I met my future wife while in hospital!
> >>
> >> I've driven many 1000 km's since that time without a problem, but
> >> having been bitten once, I'm more than twice shy...
> >>
> >> Brock
> >>
> >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, john frost wrote:
> >>
> >>> When I was over there for the f32 workshop, Ada did all the driving.
> >> She
> >>> wanted me to drive, so I clumb in, looked up the street, then across
> >> the
> >>> car to the outside mirror, and discovered that the bicycle path I
was
> >>> looking at was too narrow for that other car, and us to! I don't
> >> believe
> >>> that I had even started the engine before she pulled me out and she
> >>> drove the 2 weeks we were there. She never had a problem, but I sure
> >>> did. She kept clipping grass on the berms, and the mailboxes and
> >>> power
> >>
> >>> poles were hiding in there, too.
> >>>
> >>> john (:>))) it warn't too bad after I quit watching the road !!!
> >>>
> >>> Jim Hemenway wrote:
> >>>> For me it's those rotaries, (roundabouts). I'm used to the counter
> >>>> clockwise circling here in New England but encountering the first
> >> one in
> >>>> the UK was scary and very confusing.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Alan Davenport wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Anyone have thoughts on this --- is this do-able -- cost?? My
> >> desire
> >>>>>> for
> >>>>>> this is not to avoid having to drive on the wrong side of the
road
> >> (I
> >>>>>> often
> >>>>>> do that here :( - but, it was to have the advantage of a local
> >> guide
> >>>>>> and (if
> >>>>>> I'm fortunate) perhaps an extra back to help pack some camera
> >> equipment
> >>>>>> in --- A necessity if I take both the 4x5 and 8x10 for sure.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It isn't as big a problem as you imagine. Remember that the
> >> steering
> >>>>> wheel
> >>>>> is also on the other side of the car, so it takes very little time
> >> to get
> >>>>> accustomed to the arrangement. Foot pedals are the same as you're
> >>>>> used to.
> >>>>> Of greater concern may be what to do if you meet a lorry (truck!)
> >> on
> >>>>> one of
> >>>>> those little lanes with a stone wall on either side. You may be
> >> taking
> >>>>> "your
> >>>>> half" out of your side of the road, but when the lorry's half
> >> amounts
> >>>>> to more
> >>>>> like 2/3 of the road... scary stuff no matter which side you're
on.
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
> >> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 11:07 PM
> >> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country.
> >>
> >>
> >>> No,
> >>>
> >>> I have no problem at all driving there. I was just wondering the
> >>> feasibility of hiring a guide/driver to take me to those quaint no
> >> tourist
> >>> spots.
> >>>
> >>> Vince Dobson
> >>> Visions In Nature
> >>> www.VisionsInNature.com
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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