L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK.www.arenaev.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1131arrow-down1external-linkTesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK.www.arenaev.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilinkfile-text
Order a Model S or Model X in the UK and you’ll receive a left-hand drive car and a bonus grabbing stick.
minus-squaremystic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoTesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.
minus-squarepixelpusher220@readit.buzzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-squareSilviecat44@vlemmy.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAuatralia drives on the left
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAnd doesn’t make cars any more. If it became increasingly prohibitive to source LHD vehicles, I’m sure they’d decide to switch around.
minus-squareephemeral_gibbon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoJapan 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
Tesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.
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.
Auatralia drives on the left
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.
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
I don’t think we would