Which is why rental cars in NZ and Australia often have a large arrow-shaped sticker on the plastic panel over the speedo: "Links Halten"

Many sealed roads in the outback are two lanes wide, but only one lane-width is sealed, in the middle of the road. So you drive along the flat straight road at 100km/h, there'll be a ptatch of scrub and a bend in the road, which as you approach, a road trian comes arund the bend at you, also at 100. If it were a normal car, you would eahc pull one wheel off the seal onto the dirt, and slow down to avoid dust and flying styones, but with a road trian, they don't pull over, so you have to pull right off the road, almost into the ditch. Which is why you see a lot of wrecked cars in the ditches on the sides of the road, bleached by the desert sun!

BW

> That "Keep Right" sign in Iceland reminds me of the problems I had
> driving there. On the hundreds of miles of dirt roads they don't so
> much drive on the right as pass on the right - you generally steam
> along the median until you sight something coming in the other
> direction, or approach a blind summit.
> On some of the country roads, you don't meet oncoming traffic for
> minutes on end - long enough for me to forget where I was, so that at
> first sight of an oncoming, my Brit reflexes would kick in, and I'd
> haul over to the left, just as the other driver pulled right. Then
> I'd realise my mistake and pull right; just as he wondered what the
> hell I was doing and yanked to the left. And so on.
>
> Grant
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