Raw Video: Samoa Switches Driving Side
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@sh0werp0wer so? i passed my test on a right hand drive car, i even drove in the philippines using a left hand drive car much to my dismay that i was driving without proper international license you just got to get used to it.
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It doesn't make any sense to drive on the left as the vast majority of people are right handed, and left hand traffic requires left hand shifting.
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@waydeewaydee I really think the side of the road you drive on is just about traditions in countries. For example the Brittish empire made the countries they conqured drive on the left side and those captured by the French drove on the right. Some former ones did change, like US and Canada to right. Both are respective tradtions of these nations. No one side is better they're just different.
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Changing sides of the road would be disasterous
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@lemonrind - which means 28% drive on the left, including all of Samoa's closest neighbours.
down here, you drive on the incorrect side of the road!
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They also drive on the left in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland i.e. the UK.
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I don't mean to criticize this choice but, according to what I've heard, it's been motivated by giving the local people the chance to buy more affordable cars from Australia and NZ; that's fine. but look what the Russians do; you see lots of used RHD cars from Japan there and they're doing OK. Personally I've tried in UK and Europe with cars having the "wrong drive" and it's nothing dramatic. Anyway, it's their own Country! Good luck and drive safely.
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wow do they have to change the traffic rules as well? traffic signals, etc
They will have alot of casualties on this one
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72% of the world drives on the right side of the road. Samoa will just have to switch back again in the future when everyone drives on the correct side.
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The government should have got Beyonce in to sing her.... to the left to the left song in an effort to make the change more cool and fun; now that would have caused real chaos!!!
To the left, to the left everyone!!!
mawhala 2 years ago 5
Go Samoa! welcome to the drives-on-the-correct-side club
waydeewaydee 2 years ago 4