Here’s why Americans drive on the right and the UK drives on the left

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In Europe, Napoleon played a central role. In the US, Henry Ford often gets the credit, but that’s actually wrong. It goes much further back than Ford. Not only does traffic on the right pre-date cars, it pre-dates the establishment of the United States.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/02/business/why-americans-drive-on-the-right-and-the-british-on-the-left/index.html

A street in Stockholm, Sweden, at 5 am. on September 3, 1967 when cars switched from left to right side driving.
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