2007-02-06 09:02:27 · 4 answers · asked by peanut 4 in Travel ➔ Canada ➔ Other - Canada
if we drove on the left we would have to sit in the car on the right
2007-02-06 09:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by *********3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because our cars are built to drive on the right side of the road. We sit on the left side to drive, so therefore to see all the road, we need to drive on the right hand side.
2007-02-06 17:11:11 · answer #2 · answered by lynda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Right side of the road is the Right side to drive on. It's right! That's why.
2007-02-06 17:08:41 · answer #3 · answered by babbles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The US was influenced by the French Revolution and what followed. Napoleon enforced standardised travel on the right.
Not all of Canada converted to driving American style until the 1920s. PEI was one of the last provinces to convert.
The principal reason for cars being made left hand drive was that Henry Ford wanted to make cars as cheaply as possible and once he abandoned the foot-operated gearchange he made the gearchange in the middle of the car. It was a brute to operate and so had to be operated by the right hand and it was cheaper to put it in the middle than to put in a complicated linkage. In the early days many American cars were RHD.
2007-02-06 18:29:14 · answer #4 · answered by Feinschmecker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋