Miata Mailing List: April 1996, Message #152
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   From: Alan Dahl 
Subject: Re: Car in 96 Brochure
   Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 14:03:41 -0500

Tom Manson  writes:
> One thing you forgot to mention was that the car was on the right side of
> the road (maybe you mentioned it and I just didn't notice it).  The point
> I want to make here is that in every country that I know of, when the
> driving side is on the right, the traffic keeps to the left (so that the
> driver is always nearer the center of the road).  In this case, if you
> are correct, the car is on the wrong side of the road!  Personally I
> don't think there is enough resolution to tell which side the driver is
> on, but IF you are correct, the rules are being broken.
>

Could it be that the picture was shot in the US Virgin Islands? Because they  
were orginally part of Britian folks in the USVI drive on the left. However,  
since their cars all have to be US-legal they all have their steering wheels  
on the left too! Throw in narrow roads and a bunch of mainland tourists in  
rental cars and you have the ideal recipe for disaster... :-)

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