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13 | 44.83% |
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#1
05-15-2001, 01:13 PM
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Ok - Let me preface this by saying I am left handed so I am naturally biased to the left side of most things. However, where do people think we should be driving? On the left or the right side. Also, let me be the first smart ass to say, "Drive on the right because thats the way the traffic is going." (or vise versa)
btw - Cars were invented in the USA so I think the world should change to be like us. :sun:
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05-15-2001, 01:15 PM
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Your left or mine?
 j/k
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#4
05-15-2001, 02:36 PM
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We drive on the left Like England, Japan, Aussie. How many places are on the left and how many are on the right?
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05-15-2001, 05:40 PM
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I think you listed all the places who drive on the right.
The reason we drive on the left is because soldiers on horseback would have their sword/weapon arm ready to defend themself on their open side. Maybe you knew that...
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#7
05-15-2001, 05:41 PM
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I'm talking in the old days of course.
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#8
05-15-2001, 05:45 PM
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I wonder when you posted that cause I almost said the same thing yesterday, May 14.
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05-16-2001, 02:32 PM
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Cars weren't invented in the US? Well lets just double check history....
Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels. - Hmmmm..... Lets take a look at more history. A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since James Watt didn't invent the steam engine until 1705 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. - Getting closer to a car..... The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. Closer still, but it weighed 8000 pounds and went 2 miles an hour (YES - 2).... A Frenchman named Etienne Lenoir patented the first practical gas engine in Paris in 1860 and drove a car based on the design from Paris to Joinville in 1862. His one-half horse power engine had a bore of 5 inches and a 24 inch stroke. It was big and heavy and turned 100 rpm. Now we have an engine in something that resembles a car... Running by February, 1893 and ready for road trials by September, 1893 the car built by Charles and Frank Duryea, brothers, was the first gasoline powered car in America. So MBTN is right - the first car was not built in America. It appears to be 1335. I wonder what side of the road they drove on back then? So the question should be - who first picked a side of the road people should drive on. I'll go with the US again. 
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05-16-2001, 02:35 PM
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People usually credit Mercedes Benz with making the first car, I'm suprised you didn't mention that.
Ford made the first cars as we know them.
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05-16-2001, 02:38 PM
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How did this go from choosing which side is best?
 Look, doesn't really matter who made the car first. I choose the american way. Just don't know if I can do the shifting with my weak ass left hand. But I wouldn't mind trying! Anyone wanna let me try on their right side driver car?
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05-16-2001, 03:57 PM
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Ya, you forgot to mention Carl Benz in 1886. He invented the car because he actually sold his creation to others as did Henry Ford in 1904. Henry's first car was the Quadricycle and I don't think that he sold those.
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#14
05-19-2001, 08:01 PM
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Hmmmm.....
Without properly quantifying what constitutes a car. Coal/Gas powered, speed, ride quality, resale value etc. it'll be hard to pick who should get the credit. For the topic at hand, I'll go with mass production where driving on the road would become hazzardous without some basic laws. (head on collisions in a model-t would be painful - no airbags ) And I am pretty sure thats right here in the USofA
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08-14-2001, 10:54 PM
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If we (Americans) drove on the other side of the road, we could have had all the Skylines we want all along.
 Probably some TVRs, too.
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