I didn’t realize it was legal to drive left hand drive cars in the UK. Isn’t that generally less safe? I’m really surprised a company this large would end support for the right hand drive configuration.
There is a tunnel from UK to France, would be weird if only British cars would be allowed to use it :P
To pass anybody, you have to take the whole of the car out from behind the car in front of you to see whether it's safe enough to pass, instead of the normal 'just enough across for the driver to see ahead'.
Well, you don't have to. I agree with you that taking the whole car out would be very dangerous.
But in many circumstances, you could take the car in (closer to the side of the road) and look ahead on the other side of the car you want to pass. Of course this requires either a long straight line stretch or a long and mild inside turn. And not much traffic.
Fwiw, I would also not drive a car with the wheel on the wrong side of it can be at all helped.
The Sacoolas fiasco is famous because she was protected by the US government because she's a CIA asset, while they should have put her arse in jail.
With cost-cutting and margin improvement driving everything at Tesla now, it makes sense they’d discontinue the expensive special configurations of the niche models.
There are many other amazing luxury EVs nowadays if you are into flexing.
I suspect that already the fact that you drove on the other side for your whole life must mess with you. I certainly wouldn't dream of trying to drive in the UK, but I am the elusive below-average driver anyway.
I am not even sure why, probably can be filed under the nebulous "cultural pecularities" category, or there are some historic reasons.
Most countries will allow cars from the opposite driving side but you’ll pay for it with your insurance premiums.
I’m also baffled they haven’t switched one plant to make right hand drive cars at least part time yet. I know the list of countries is small, but most of them are fairly wealthy. If they have so much profit margin, it should have been possible to retool a few interior pieces after a decade.
there was a court-case against poland and lithuania, and according to that, the countries could not prove that traffic safety was affected.
but apparently, it is also no problem to import and register these cars in the US. japan or australia also seem to allow right-side cars with a local registration, so not allowing that seems to be the exception rather than the norm.