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Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you'll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The long tail of global colonialism ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic

Also, while not entirely accurate, an even older history, ahem, driving, the modern world http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

Without India I suspect Driving on the Left would be relegated to history books by simple economics.

Though with EVs a lot of the production costs of doing both could be eliminated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And doesn't make cars any more. If it became increasingly prohibitive to source LHD vehicles, I'm sure they'd decide to switch around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Japan is where we get a lot of our cars from... And they're RHD. So even if companies like tesla stop producing them we'll still have others to buy from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think we would