THE RIGHT SIDE

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 46, 24 April 1930, Page 10

THE RIGHT SIDE

TWO VIEWPOINTS

There is an old story of a. doting mother who sat in a grandstand to watch her son march by in a lengthy parade. When the youth came past his mother pitoudly looked him over and then remarked: "Isn't it too bad, everybody is out of step but Willie."

One of the British motoring magazines woently discussed the driving usages of various countries and warned English motorists who intended to motor abroad that they would find "that traffic keeps to the wrong side of the road in virtually all countries outside their own island, New Zealand and the Argentine Bepublic."

Commenting on this, an American paper remarks that most of the world is out of step, except Britain, New Zealand and Argentina.

"Asa matter of-fact" continues the American journal, "driving on the lighfchand «io.« is more nearly an,automatic gesture than turning to the left. Most humans are right-handed,, and the tendency is to favour the most useful side, In the beginning of motoring a great many countries used the left-hand driving custom, but almost all these have changed and there is a movement in Argentina to shift over to the right. Perhaps we are not as "wrong" as the. British editor thinks."