Why cant LHD and RHD live together?

[flappist]

Originally Posted by RAPID XR8

All I will say is, go and have a drive of a LHD car. Then all will be revealed.

If you are behind a truck,van or 4x4 for that matter and want to overtake, forget it.

75% of your car is on the wrong side of the road just to see if anything is coming in the opposite direction.

Horrible outcome if a car is there when you decide to try and see if it is OK to overtake.

You can actually look up the other side of the vehicle in front you know, I often do it on my bikes.

Or make just don't sit right up the **** of the vehicle in front so you have plenty of room to see past (yes I do realise that this is a difficult concept for most drivers, especially city ones).

Or how about a reversing camera attacted to the front of the right hand mirror with the screen set up on or next to your SATNAV?

Do Australians really have the mentality that it is easier and better to ban something than solve a problem technically?

It does say a lot about our driving culture that the bigger and shinier the 4wd the closer to the centre of the road (and the further away from any dirt on the edge of the road) they sit.

It is also quite amusing that the only LHD vehicles that are allowed in most states are the ones WITHOUT airbags, crumple zones, ABS, DSC or any of the other safety enhancements of the last 30 years.....