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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Also, when making an “inside” turn, you get better visibility through the turn. For example, when driving in the US on the right side of the road, and turning right into the near right lane. Your position on the left of the car means your eyes are on the outside of that turn, seeing the crossroad better, earlier in the turn (and before you put more of the car into that crossroad).
If you were seated in the middle of the car, your vision of the traffic in that lane, as you make the turn, would be a little bit less.
I noticed this when I traveled to England & Ireland a couple of years ago, and drove on the left side of the road, from the seat on the right side of the car.
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