Arabic-L:GEN:British Driving in Arab Countries

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Date: 15 Aug 2013
From: "A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:British Driving in Arab Countries

On the other hand, people drive on the right in Japan although the country
was not a a British colony in the past. This made me curious during a
week-long visit donkey's years ago.

A former British professor of mine once told me that driving a vehicle was
initially modeled on horseback riding. The rider stayed on the left side of
the road to have enough elbow room to use his right hand when need be to
draw his sword that dangled on his left side.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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