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Tesla thinks a grabbing stick is a good replacement for right-hand drive in the UK. (www.arenaev.com)

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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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[-] mystic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] pixelpusher220@readit.buzz 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Auatralia drives on the left

[-] pixelpusher220@readit.buzz 2 points 1 year ago

Yes that's true. Most of the Left Hand drive world is former British colonial. Except for the population size of India, the vast majority of the world drives on the Right. If a company wants to produce vehicles, do you incur the expense of an entirely separate build process for a small minority of the population? Some might but most would pick the majority and build for that.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ephemeral_gibbon@lemmy.world 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

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think we would

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