From: tppm@ca.rr.com   
      
   On 2/10/2026 1:22 PM, Bernard Peek wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-10, Keith F. Lynch  wrote:   
   >> Gary McGath  wrote:   
   >>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>   
   >>> Long before cars, horse-drawn vehicles moved at a faster pace and   
   >>> couldn't get out of each other's way as easily as pedestrians.   
   >>   
   >>> According to a CNN article, the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike   
   >>> Road, opened in 1795, had a rule to stay to the right.   
   >>   
   >> I just watched the Thoughty2 YouTube Video, "The London Underground   
   >> Has Secrets You Wouldn't Expect."  It shows film and still photos of   
   >> what London traffic looked during the Victorian era.  Sure enough,   
   >> it appears to be random.  And at 3:17, two horse-drawn carriages are   
   >> driving on the right.   
   >   
   > The images might have been reversed. Is there any visible text showing?   
   >   
      
   I remember seeing an episode of Power Rangers, allegedly set in America,   
   where they showed one of the regular (non PR) characters driving, where   
   they'd obviously taken a scene originally shot for the Japanese version   
   and reversed the print, so it looked like the steering wheel was on the   
   left.   
      
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