Billy_Kinetta
Paladin of the Lost Hour
- Mar 4, 2013
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I can see that. Muscle memory would have me trying to shift the steering wheel and turn the shift.When I drove in the UK, I thought shifting with the left hand was trickier than driving on the wrong side of the road.Went to England about 10 years ago on business.
It was almost impossible to rent a car with automatic transmission because everyone there drives a stick to save on petrol.
Don't get me wrong. All I drove as a teenager was a four on the floor.
But driving on the wrong side of the road was bad enough, and shifting with my left hand was just too much for my brain to handle.
Thankfully, the car rental place after about an hours wait scrounged up a car with an automatic transmission.
Still driving on the left side of the road while negotiating a round-about was no picnic. ...