Apud Smith <fake@email.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>Slightly off your topic... but how hard is it to get used to driving on 
>a different side of the road to what you're used to? Being from 
>Australia I don't have that problem in Japan.

>Sometimes I think driving on the left (and the associated road crossing 
>and bus catching habits) are hard-wired into my head.

>If I tried to drive in the US or mainland Europe I would probably turn 
>corners and end up on the wrong side of the road. Plus I would get hit 
>by a bus when crossing the road after checking for traffic on the wrong 
>side.

I've driven on the right in mainland Europe (and on the left in Oz,
NZ, PNG, Japan, Singapore,....). I got used to the right fairly
quickly (my family probably dispute this), but there were some funny 
aspects. I had a tendency to turn left when the navigator
said "right", and right when they said "left". I suspect it was because
I'd got so used to reversing my orientation that LR command mappings
got converted too.

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学