Which side of the road to drive on?

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

John. Your version has some significant discrepancies with the (reasonably well sourced) version on wikipedia.

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I went entirely from memory, so I am quite prepared to accept the Wiklipedia version. Which, however, is basically the same - historic custom, with Napoleonic enforcement imposed over much of Europe, but not taken too seriously until motor vehicles appeared.

And nothing to do with dominant side or handedness, or ease of control of vehicles.

John

4 different eye Specialists (surgeons) Wins out over some crap that any dickhead can put on Wiki, hows' about quoting something from the real world for a change.
Here is a simple FACT, if your right eye is the dominant eye, it targets the object you're looking at and your left eye adjusts to focus on what the dominant right eye is looking at.
My point (without the help from Wiki) is that driving on the left hand side of the vehicle with the centreline of the road on your left, means that your right dominant eye has to focus across to the left (diagonally), which is not natural, it is like a right handed shooter aiming with his left eye.
No one has answered why during the 20's most cars switched from RHD to LHD, maybe the Yanks couldn't change gears with their left hand, even though they left the pedals the right way round, right foot (dominant if you're right handed) accelerator/ brake.
Probably Henry Ford made a blue on his production line and it was cheaper to fit the steering on the left, Regards frank.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

Sorry but you are still wrong despite what you and some random eye doctor say.

The most current research paper I can find on the topic - which is a meta analysis of all previous research, plus another relevant one from 2013 showing eye preference varies depending on the situation:

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Frank - go back and read the abstracts I posted from the most current journal papers on the topic. They are "real world" studies of large numbers of subjects. The main one is a meta-analysis of all previous studies on the topic.

The eye doctors you spoke to were either not up to date or oversimplifying the data for general consumption.

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Originally Posted by Tank

4 different eye Specialists (surgeons) Wins out over some crap that any dickhead can put on Wiki, hows' about quoting something from the real world for a change.
Here is a simple FACT, if your right eye is the dominant eye, it targets the object you're looking at and your left eye adjusts to focus on what the dominant right eye is looking at.
My point (without the help from Wiki) is that driving on the left hand side of the vehicle with the centreline of the road on your left, means that your right dominant eye has to focus across to the left (diagonally), which is not natural, it is like a right handed shooter aiming with his left eye.
No one has answered why during the 20's most cars switched from RHD to LHD, maybe the Yanks couldn't change gears with their left hand, even though they left the pedals the right way round, right foot (dominant if you're right handed) accelerator/ brake.
Probably Henry Ford made a blue on his production line and it was cheaper to fit the steering on the left, Regards frank.

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Originally Posted by loneranger

I have the situation of writing left handed but being more naturally right handed at some things and ambidextrous at others. I can kick a soccer ball with either foot but I can only kick an Aussie rules ball right footed. I could play darts, pool, golf, cricket batting etc with either hand but can only throw a ball right handed. So I don't really have a dominant side. Was great when I did martial arts though.

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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.