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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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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If traffic only moved in one direction, and no one cared about using the space inside the car efficiently, then you’d be right!

But, there are such things as two-way roads. And lots of us care about fitting more people inside a car of a given dimension.