Eli5 why driving on one side of a car is more practical than driving in the middle of one. Surely, the middle gives you better spacial awareness but things like the Monza SP1 exist and you still sit on one side of the vehicle
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Sitting on the right side of the car made sense if you were driving a carriage or wagon. Most people are right handed, so you hold the whip in your right hand, and by sitting on the right of the vehicle you don’t tangle your whip with the passengers or vehicle. Also if there are trees or hedges then you want the whip in the middle of the road to avoid tangling in these too.
However emperor Napoleon of France had to be different to the British, so everywhere he conquered had to drive on the opposite side to the obvious way. Which was pretty inconvenient, but also petty
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