New Facelift?

[Archev]

Ireland are planning to make this same change ... cars will switch first, and trucks will switch the following night.

And BMW drivers? Will they continue as normal ?

 

[Tuareg]

Didn't know that. And can certainly see why that was tricky, at the time. But obviously that rarely happens. And you get used to driving on which ever side your Country drives, on. No doubt it would be chaos, if we suddenly changed overnight.

Some cars have clear compromises when built as RHD because they're designed as LHD (vast majority of world market) and then mods are made to the design for RHD production. A good example was my RHD Porsche 993 (911) turbo. The pedals were offset to the left in the footwell which weren't offset to the right on the LHD models. It was clearly felt when driving. In various countries , I've driven RHD on the left side of the road, RHD on the right side of the road, LHD on the right and LHD on the left side of the road. Out of all those combinations, the most prefferable was LHD on the right side of the road (continental Europe), just felt far more natural even though I was brought up driving in the UK for many years.

 

[Archev]

Some cars have clear compromises when built as RHD because they're designed as LHD (vast majority of world market) and then mods are made to the design for RHD production. A good example was my RHD Porsche 993 (911) turbo. The pedals were offset to the left in the footwell which weren't offset to the right on the LHD models. It was clearly felt when driving. In various countries , I've driven RHD on the left side of the road, RHD on the right side of the road, LHD on the right and LHD on the left side of the road. Out of all those combinations, the most prefferable was LHD on the right side of the road (continental Europe), just felt far more natural even though I was brought up driving in the UK for many years.

Same for me when in USA.