From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   > Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >> You may be thinking of the Angevin Empire, which included both   
   >> England and parts of France.  But people didn't drive on either   
   >> side of the road in those days, as cars hadn't yet been invented.   
      
   > Actually, the custom/rule of driving on the left goes back possibly   
   > to the Romans, and certainly to the Middle Ages.   
      
   > (Carts.)   
      
   I'm skeptical.  How did Britain and the US end up driving on different   
   sides if they started out driving on the same side?   
      
   I expect that when traffic moved at a walking pace that there were no   
   rules, and everyone went every which way, as pedestrians still do.   
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