Having never driven on the left, I was actually surprised about how quickly I adapted as well as the things that ultimately tripped me up, roughly in ascending order of frequency:
- Shifting with my left hand was pretty easy…didn’t have any problems with this.
- Remembering to keep on the left required some mental concentration, but I only tried to drive on the right side once in the two weeks I was in the UK.
- There were several times I almost got into the car on the left side.
- Probably at least once a day I could be found trying to grasp at an imaginary seat belt over left shoulder. It was, of course, over my right shoulder.
- Constantly expecting the rearview mirror to be in my upper right field-of-vision when it was in my upper-left. This took the entire two weeks to really get ironed out.
That was awesome. My brain was screaming the whole time, your going to get hit.
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lol, i like it when you see people on the street
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