and its location made which side of the road you drove on inconsequential. Until about 1910, most cars made in America had a steering wheel on the right side so drivers could better see high curbs ...

That decision itself meant that cars would drive on the road’s right-hand side, so passengers in both the front and back seats could enter and exit the car onto a curb. This led many other ...

The first car makers simply followed suit. Why then did the Americans and Europeans decide to drive on the opposite (right) side of the road? Two theories concern Henry Ford. In the early days of ...

Despite the modern invention of the car, the side of the road on which we drive has a centuries-old history. The fact that most people are right-handed is the biggest factor contributing to which ...

The European left-side-of-the-road driving model traces its origins to the Romans, as their method of driving chariots required passing on the right side to avoid collisions. Most people during ...

that Swedes switched from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right side. Most cars in Sweden already had their steering wheels on the left side, anyway, so the change made ...

Back when I was motoring through London, very carefully, in a Mini Cooper, I wondered: Why was I driving on the “wrong” side of the road ... traffic on the right pre-date cars, it pre-dates ...

One of the most vexing aspects of traveling between mainland China and Hong Kong is the car travel: People in the former drive on the right side of the road; people in the latter drive on the left ...