cars are coming from your left
filed in Country on Apr.21, 2010
Panama is one of many countries around the world where driving right is the rule. I am guessing we all know England is one of the few countries that drive left. I remember the first time I crossed the street here in England, I was almost run over because I was looking to the wrong side of the road even thought I knew before hand that England drives in the other side of the street. After that incident, before crossing the street now, I look everywhere (right, left, front and back).
Some streets tell the pedestrians where to look before crossing, but they do not say so here in Oxford (or I have not seen them). In my first weekend in the UK, I saw those signs while visiting London. They are at almost every corner!
I was playing Euro Truck Simulator the other day and I started my journey in London, but every single time I have to turn, I would end in the other side of the road. I know, I am suppose to drive in the left side and I do it (in the game) very well but at the moment of turning left or right I get confuse. Twenty-three years of watching people driving in the right side of the road, driving in the right side on video games and real life are difficult to unwired from anybodies brain.
While walking on the sidewalks I would look at the cars and get scare because there was nobody driving the car! Unconsciously I was looking at the wrong side of the car; the driver sit is located at the right of the car. Took me a long time to get used to see the driver sit in that side and even after three month there are time I scare myself by looking at the wrong side (OMG nobody is driving that car! Is that a kid in the driver sit?) Perhaps by the end of my holidays I will learn to look at the right side,
Since I have never bike in the street, I might not have a problem here because there is no information in my brain regarding where to bike. In Panama people do not bike unless in a Park or in the countryside.
There are not specific reasons of why some countries drive in the left side while more than half of the population drives in the right side.
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