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Originally Posted by larrybuck
If you are Euromodder, vtec-e, Piwoslaw, and of course; Arragonis, and anyone else w a right sided steering wheel, and left hand shift:...................................and also left side steering wheel, right shift, but YOU are left handed:............ Do you drive enough that you have actually built up muscle in your Off arm, so that its almost as strong as what HANDED you were born with??
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With the exception of those weird islanders, we drive on the right right side in Europe.
Use both hands on the wheel
Powersteering has largely eliminated the need for muscle in a car.
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If you are born, and raised in a country where you always shift w your left hand, I'm sure after the beginning, it becomes normal.
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Having driven a right-hand-drive car a few times, even on the continent, it's really not an issue.
It's like changing from an automatic back to a manual shifter, you may forget the clutch a few times
but that's it.
Driving on the wrong side of the road is also a matter of habit.
I've racked up so many miles on UK roads that driving on the left is just about as normal to me as driving on the right elsewhere.
Somewhere below the Channel it seems an internal switch gets flicked, and I swiftly switch sides
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Of course, for all of the situations above, an ambidextrous ( I know SP, don't use this word much) person would do the best. What % of people would be in that group?
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Very, very few people really fall in that group.
In my 42 years on this planet, I've only come across a single person who I know is really ambidextrous : i.e. able to write different texts with both hands simultaneously.