Bulldog1jack Loc: CT

I drive on the right side of the road and have LHD and RHD vehicles and have zero issues shifting ether way. I feel at home both ways. Pay attention to what your doing and not everything around you just saying.

Dan Mc Loc: NM

Not only clanging and crunching gears, but the over run or runaway on braking was frightening!!!!!!!!!

Abo

As soon as a driving situation becomes demanding enough to be critical,
steering will be a greater issue than gear changing.

It is at that point, steering will require your "A" game.
And for most people their "A" game is best executed with their right hand sweetheart.

Abo

Airbuses are "fly by wire",
she's not flying the plane. The computer is.
You can hit the joystick with a baseball bat
and the computer will make a safe maneuver.
You can "fly" an Airbus with your left foot.

Apart from that:

Get a flight simulator program (for aircraft that are not
"fly by wire") and a joystick.
See which hand automatically goes to the joy stick.

You may be able to fly ok with your non dominant hand.
However, not so when the flight parameters are critical.

For example; A dogfight between a Fockewulf 190
and a MkI Spitfire, you wont be able to get the joystick
into your dominant hand quick enough... whether you've
chosen Zee machine vis zee Bayerische Motoren Werke kraftwerk,
or the Supermarine... Tally Ho! Jolly Hockey Sticks!
Make mine the Spitty thanks. Just so long as that Hun turns
I'll have him on his way to Valhalla.

Same goes for driving a car, suddenly ice or oil on a curve on a country road,
or a kid chases a ball onto the road in front of you. some klutz drives through
a red light etc etc etc. If you can only use one hand to avoid a collision, are you going to use
your non dominant hand to avoid death. If you do, you are suicidal or
homicidal or mentally impaired.

In a right hand drive car your dominant hand is on the wheel more
than in a left hand drive car... even if its an auto, there's
numerous buttons knobs and controls in the center console
to occupy your right hand in an automatic left hand drive car.
Your in real trouble if there's a damsel in the passenger seat
that requires attention.

These are the points that all the RHD nay sayers havnt realized or
have chosen to ignore.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

I agree, but then the close ratio 4 speed on my 68 RS Camaro 396 probably found it's way to the salvage yard along with the rest of the car years ago. Should never have sold it.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

I have always owned boats and know the rules of the road. But I never considered the port/starboard light convention vs. rules of the road. Doing so makes them seem at odds to me. When approaching each other you’d think you want to display the green if you are ptoperly lined up to pass port to port. But the lights are reversed.

Alafoto Loc: Montgomery, AL

Gee don't hold back. Tell us how you REALLY feel.

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

Give him hell, well said. He seems to be one of the new resident experts on all things that go down the road. Knows all sees all.

IDguy Loc: Idaho

Originally there was nothing on the dashboard and no center console stuff. But with todays autos there is a bunch of stuff to manipulate, including touch screen controls, even if the shifter not so much. These are easier to manipulate, particularly with limited attention, with the dominant hand.

When I drove in England for a year in the early eighties it was pretty much just the radio and hvac controls. I had no issues driving there. But upon return for several months had occasional panics thinking I was on the wrong side of the road.

sailwiz Loc: Santee, CA

You must be young. You've left out old stick shifts. A righty using the left hand to shift puts paid to your reasoning.

Abo

Are you responding to me?

Abo

Calling someone a "know all" is a lame and stupid attempt to make a positive a negative.

ie someone has more knowledge than you, and that undermines your ego,
so you turn that fact into the derogatory: He's a know all etc etc.

If it wasn't politically incorrect, I'd compare you to an arthropod.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

If you are born in Saudi Arabia you are a Muslim, if born in the USA you are a Christian.
If born in England you drive on the left, if born in the USA you drive on the right.
Exactly the same thing.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

I think you making a mountain out of a mole hill.I have driven RTH drive and LFTH drive vehicles a few of the LFTh drives were right hand shift had no problem nor with the center shift Jag or LFT hand shift.
It all depends on your coordination . I'M betting the OP can't walk and chew gum.

clickety

I would like to correct your assessment, actually a resident ‘expert’ thinks they know it all, while spending all their time telling others that they are’the expert’ in order to deny and obfuscate the obvious, which in reality is the exact opposite.