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Originally Posted by dewilson58
Can't wait for National Backwards Day...........January 31, 2019.
Clockwise in the roundabouts.
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You laugh, but Sweden, the country that makes Saabs, decided that they should change their left-hand driving to right-hand driving. Their method was: name a date and do it.
"Finally, everything was ready. At 4:50 a.m. on September 3, 1967, as crowds of people gathered to watch, all vehicles on the road were instructed to come to a halt. They were then directed to move carefully from the left side of the road to the right, and wait. At the stroke of 5:00, following a radio countdown, an announcement was made — “Sweden now has right-hand driving” — and traffic was allowed to resume. Time Magazine called the event “a brief but monumental traffic jam.”
Some people think the real reason for this was a car manufacturer was selling so many cars to the US.