dob@ihu1n.UUCP (Daniel M. O'Brien) (01/18/85)
I have a friend that is planning a trip to New Zealand. He was wondering how the pedals (gas, brake, clutch) were laid out in a right-hand drive car. Is the layout a "mirror" image of the left-hand drive car or is it the same? Simply stated: which feet work which pedals? -- Daniel M. O'Brien AT&T Bell Laboratories IH 4A-258 Naperville, IL 60566 ....!ihu1n!dob
rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (01/21/85)
In article <142@ihu1n.UUCP> dob@ihu1n.UUCP (Daniel M. O'Brien) writes: >I have a friend that is planning a trip to New Zealand. He >was wondering how the pedals (gas, brake, clutch) were laid >out in a right-hand drive car. Is the layout a "mirror" >image of the left-hand drive car or is it the same? It's the same! I worried about the same thing on my first trip from Ireland to the USA. The only thing that took some getting used to was using a different hand to shift gear in a standard shift car - and, of course, staying on the correct side of the street :-). -- rod williams ------------------------------------------- [decvax!decwrl!amdcad!dual!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw]
doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (01/21/85)
> I have a friend that is planning a trip to New Zealand. He > was wondering how the pedals (gas, brake, clutch) were laid > out in a right-hand drive car. Is the layout a "mirror" > image of the left-hand drive car or is it the same? Actually, the hardest part is the "mirror" image mirrors. The mirrors are on the "wrong" sides. Took me about 4 hours to notice that I wasn't watching the mirrors (there weren't any where I was looking for 'em). I chose an automatic to avoid the left-hand shifting problem -- kinda glad I did, 'cuz I still had problems switching from Drive to Reverse and back. -- Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) (01/23/85)
> > I have a friend that is planning a trip to New Zealand. He > > was wondering how the pedals (gas, brake, clutch) were laid > > out in a right-hand drive car. Is the layout a "mirror" > > image of the left-hand drive car or is it the same? Yet another thing to be careful of: rotaries go the wrong way! I had no problem with reversed pedals, shifts etc. (though the phantom mirror problem was annoying.) Also right hand turns in intersections should be taken with the same precaution one uses for a left hand turn state-side. (One normally turns sensors to full on left turns, sensors to about 1/3 for right.) Really though, not to worry. By the way, New Zealand was nice but they chopped all the trees down.