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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Once moving though normal driving is fine, you adjust. It is intersections or roundabouts that are the real tester - you have to get used to cars going round anti-clockwise instead of clockwise and crossing junctions needs lots of though.
The first time I drove on the right was in the US and spent a week away from roundabouts. Then I came across the only one in SC and it took a good 20-30 seconds to work out what to do.
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I once had occasion to spend several days in London and quickly realized (as a pedestrian) that the biggest problem would not be driving, per se, but rather getting over habitually looking in the "wrong" direction, because it is all the opposite from what you would expect. You instinctively will look in the wrong direction when crossing a street. I wouldn't attempt to rent a car or drive it there, for that reason alone.
OTOH, some folks would shy away from the frenzied nature of city driving and would not want to drive in a city such as Rome, for instance. (I'd find that to be no problem - compared to NYC traffic, it would be relatively easy by comparison.)