Why? There are costs associated with changing from one system to another. What would be the benefits, and what reason would we have for assuming they would outweigh the costs?
If we drove on the other side of road and car, it would lower car prices.
The Unionists are having a hard enough time dealing with Brexit, do you think they would be happy to drive the other side of the road from the rest of the UK?
Eh no
Guyana and Suriname holding out in South America. Good to know I can drive there easily enough and in South Africa, Thailand, and Japan.
NI won’t agree. It’s already dead in the water.
It’s a shame, if we didn’t have that complication we should have done the same as Sweden and made the switch in the 1960s.
It would be a lot more expensive today I suspect, because of motorway junctions etc.
In a few decades – i can see this all becoming moot
Think about it. Self driving passenger, with digital controls mechanically detached from being solely on left and right.
Automated cargo vehicles with no human crew,
All roads digitally controlled, with passengers only having to take over in case of emergencies.
At that point, switching the side of the road vehicles drive on will become trivial.
It’ll probably happen after we’re dead and gone, but it’s probably inevitable.
The costs to pull that off far outweigh any benefits
People will die because Irish people are shite drivers as it is
This is a good idea. They should do a test, maybe start with buses and taxis and see how we get on from there
Why?
Uno reverse
Eh, you do realise that would involve converting or replacing every vehicle in the country to left side drive. I think we’ve more important things to worry about. Drove for years on left side abroad, it makes no difference whatsoever.
We drive on the correct side of the road… All the others are wrong
It would be effin carnage here if the sides were changed
Think about the logistics of getting off a bus when the bus stop is on the right hand side but the door is on the left so you have to walk out into traffic every time you get off a bus or alternatively decommission every single bus and replace them with ones that have doors on the right.
This is what happened in Myanmar when they changed from driving on the left to the right and apparently is still a massive issue. It would be a logistical nightmare to change something like that especially when there’s no clear rationale or benefit
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Why? There are costs associated with changing from one system to another. What would be the benefits, and what reason would we have for assuming they would outweigh the costs?
If we drove on the other side of road and car, it would lower car prices.
The Unionists are having a hard enough time dealing with Brexit, do you think they would be happy to drive the other side of the road from the rest of the UK?
Eh no
Guyana and Suriname holding out in South America. Good to know I can drive there easily enough and in South Africa, Thailand, and Japan.
NI won’t agree. It’s already dead in the water.
It’s a shame, if we didn’t have that complication we should have done the same as Sweden and made the switch in the 1960s.
It would be a lot more expensive today I suspect, because of motorway junctions etc.
In a few decades – i can see this all becoming moot
Think about it. Self driving passenger, with digital controls mechanically detached from being solely on left and right.
Automated cargo vehicles with no human crew,
All roads digitally controlled, with passengers only having to take over in case of emergencies.
At that point, switching the side of the road vehicles drive on will become trivial.
It’ll probably happen after we’re dead and gone, but it’s probably inevitable.
If you remember [the road scenes in I, Robot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL84nPIPWLk) (Will Smith) it’ll be like that (but with less killer robots)
The costs to pull that off far outweigh any benefits
People will die because Irish people are shite drivers as it is
This is a good idea. They should do a test, maybe start with buses and taxis and see how we get on from there
Why?
Uno reverse
Eh, you do realise that would involve converting or replacing every vehicle in the country to left side drive. I think we’ve more important things to worry about. Drove for years on left side abroad, it makes no difference whatsoever.
We drive on the correct side of the road… All the others are wrong
It would be effin carnage here if the sides were changed
Think about the logistics of getting off a bus when the bus stop is on the right hand side but the door is on the left so you have to walk out into traffic every time you get off a bus or alternatively decommission every single bus and replace them with ones that have doors on the right.
This is what happened in Myanmar when they changed from driving on the left to the right and apparently is still a massive issue. It would be a logistical nightmare to change something like that especially when there’s no clear rationale or benefit
Switch to type C plugs as well