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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In America, you drive on the right side of the road, and the driver is on the left side of the car. This way, you are more aware of the vehicles coming toward you than if you were on the other side or middle of the vehicle. After all, it’s better for a car going 25 miles per hour to hit a stationary mailbox than it is for two cars going 25 to impact, thereby increasing the force to the equivalent of 50.
Not only that, but there are things that need to be done that cannot be done easily if you are too far away from the windows, such as asking for directions, retrieving things from drive-throughs, and checking blind spots.
It should be noted that mailpersons’ vehicles have the steering wheels on the right side of the cars because it simply wouldn’t be sensible for them to cross over to the left side of the road, or reach over the entire width of the car, to put mail in mailboxes.
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