Are you touring abroad?
If like me you tour abroad and sometimes forget to drive on the right, especially when leaving supermarkets, garages and restaurants etc. I have devised a DIY heads up.
if you write the text ‘drive on right’ and mirror (not reverse) the image, print it off and simply place it on your dashboard and it will show the correct way on your screen.
you can buy stickers to place on your windscreen, but they are easily missed when setting off.
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Here’s the link that works
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Did once.
Driving in woodland with little on the road, we stopped for lunch in a pull in on the left of the road, in relation to our direction of travel. When we resumed there was nothing on the road and I just set off as I would here. (The wood and road could have been in the UK and no other visual clues) Fortunately I realised my mistake before we met anything on a bend.
Shows how easy it is to make a mistake.
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the reverse is also true....after weeks of driving over there, it's sometimes a bit odd when you emerge from the ferry/tunnel....just hope everyone in front has their wits about them....
one thing I do know, coming out onto the M20 a few days ago after weeks of quiet, billiard table smooth French roads is how crowded our Mways are, how manic the driving, how poor the road surfaces are (even our better roads just aren't 'the same') and how regular the hold ups....
welcome home
driving in the USA once I did turn left, thinking I'd got over into 'our' lane, however, the road was an 8 lanes and our bit was way over further and I was about to turn into the (thankfully stationary) oncoming traffic...
my little note to self from then on was 'up and around' when turning left..
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I have probably driven more miles in Europe than I have in the UK. My problem is usually when I get home, especially in supermarket carparks!!!
David
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An interesting point (or not) is that while I have an Italian driving license and learnt to drive over there and over here at more or less the same time, I am absolutely fine driving on both ‘sides’ but it has to be with the steering wheel on the ‘correct’ side for here or there if you see what I mean? I once was asked to drive an Italian relative’s car over here, which you think should have been easy, but wow it took some brain processing power for me. So hats off to you and others who can switch so easily !
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Corners, I could easily have gone for a LHD vehicle as, like DK, we do more miles over there than here...
however, my (considered
) view was that I felt more comfortable driving a RHD vehicle on the continent with more room and less traffic than driving a LHD vehicle over here on our manic roads with poor visibility...'switching' brain usually takes a minute ot two and fully settled by first roundabout...
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actually (guilty secret) I loved driving over there in my teens compared to over here, no nonsense about lane disciipline, speed limits, and stop lights and any infringment was usually taken care of by offering to pay the multa expressa to the local police. Also the way that insurance worked over there at the time was that the car was insured not the driver, so a friend whose babbo had an Alfa Romeo giulia was very very popular. Sadly my uncle had a Fiat 850
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just looked at this,
https://www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/fiat/850/850/1967/131194
I'm really really tempted, relive those teenage years.
what's that song by the Undertones...
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I am absolutely fine driving on both ‘sides’ but it has to be with the steering wheel on the ‘correct’ side for here or there if you see what I mean?
Corners, you reminded me of the time we hired a car in Nice for a December holiday. Left hand drive Merc A140, when EasyJet were doing self drive hire. Couldn't park the ruddy thing but when touring France with my Izusu Trooper I could fit it into the proverbial.
Like Oneputt I have no problem with driving on the left. The only time I get confused is when they still have the antiquated system of giving way to vehicles from the right when there is no sign. Nearly caught me out once or twice.
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‘Teenage kicks’👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎
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A good co-pilot is essential, and useful with a big MH as it can sometimes be quite difficult to see left.
Very true and inspite of having held several foreign driving licences in my time, I still need the occasional prompt from my co-pilot (not satnav).
I also find the reverse when I have been over there for some time and return home but having the steering wheel in the right place helps! Whether its drive on the left or the right it does not take long to get used to it.
peedee
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still good though.
Is a LHD version cheaper to buy?
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that's the one, just sums it all up.
Now I have to be in bed by 9pm (to sleep)
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yes, also roundabouts where you can go on and stop actually on it.
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AFAIK, it used to be but I suspect some eu directive says there should be no profiteering from such a thing as I do know that a Carthago is the same price either handed...
when in the states and using a LHD fully auto car, its far easier IMHO to 'get into' LHD as there's no gear changing or coutch usage....
have used many LHD hore. cars throughout Europe but it's not as 'comfortable' due to changing gear (ass DD suggests) with the window winderundecided
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thanks as always BB
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a pleasure, as always, CS
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One of the catches is if you are in a narrow lane and avoiding potholes, the first instinct is to swing left if you encounter another car.
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Having spent 20 years driving in Germany (and rest of europe) I would agree with BB in that I prefer to drive a RHD in europe than a LHD in the uk. At one time OH had a RHD and I had a LHD car we used to swap cars with each other on daily basis, depending on who got home and parked on the drive first. Mistakes what mistakes
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