[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:31:42 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
>>> This seems most peculiar! What legal theory holds that a manufacturer
>>> in, say, France, has a duty to supply right hand drive vehicles for
>>> use in the UK? It may be profitable for them to do so but I have
>>> trouble seeing a duty there.
> 
>>> It's my understanding that this situation is ancient history,
> 
>> Driving on the wrong side? I don't think so. :-)
> 
>>> the Brits finally joined the rest of the world. Seems to me it was
>>> twenty or more years ago.
> 
> They joined the rest of the world using (mostly) metric units and a
> decimal based currency about 40 years ago, but still drive on that other
> side.
> 
> It must be interesting to go into the chunnel on one side of the road,
> and come out on the other.
> 

I've done that but using ferries.  Once you are used to it, it's no 
problem.  With the Chunnel your car is loaded onto a train, so you simply 
start driving on the other side once you reach your destination.

Sweden also drove on the left hand side until 1967.  I recall some kind 
of traffic light system on the border with Norway, which drove on the 
RHS.  The UK later used studies of Sweden's switch to estimate the cost 
of changing and decided it would be too expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_side#Sweden

-- 
Paul Sture