Poland's supreme administrative court rules against RHD cars

Poland doesn't have to allow right-hand drive cars to be registered in Poland.

Right hand drives in a left hand drive country are too dangerous for overtaking.
I believe it is a safety issue rather than anything else and Poland is trying to minimize accidents

Then why is it possible in most other EU countries (France, Germany, Belgium..) which have a much better road safety record than Poland?

Right hand drives in a left hand drive country are too dangerous for overtaking.

I believe it is a safety issue rather than anything else and Poland is trying to minimize accidents, goodness knows there are enough already.

To be honest I think Ireland and Britain should just change sides, they are the only two countries in Europe that have in the other way. Like the metric system instead of the imperial.

No they aren't. With small changes to your driving style they are about as safe as LHD and with a small change to the equipment, they are safer than LHD.

Driving stupidly fast is perfectly accepted by Polish society and drink driving isn't much frowned on.

First, driving on the left is safer:

Secondly, UK uses all metric except miles, pints (although everything bottled is dual labeled)and troy ounce (for gold), Ireland doesn't even use miles anymore!

"Like the metric system instead of the imperial".

Poland has a terrible amount of road accidents.

Bullfrog, Why don't Ireland and Britain just change?

t the cause is reckless and aggressive drivers and poor roads. In most continental EU countries you can register a right hand drive car and the rate of accidents is lower..

No they aren't. With small changes to your driving style they are about as safe as LHD and with a small change to the equipment, they are safer than LHD.

First, driving on the left is safer:

Legal restrictions on wrong-hand drive vehicles

For reasons of safety, politics, and/or economic market protection, some countries ban the sale or import of vehicles with the steering wheel on the "wrong" side.

In Australia, registration of non-vintage (i.e., less than 30 years old) LHD vehicles is illegal. Imported LHD vehicles must be converted to RHD (costing potentially thousands of dollars)


In India, LHD vehicles cannot be sold commercially to customers

In the Philippines, RHD vehicles are banned.

Cambodia banned the use of RHD cars,

Singapore bans LHD vehicles from being imported for personal local registration,

etc

Research in 1969 by J. J. Leeming showed countries driving on the left have a lower collision rate than countries driving on the right. It has been suggested this is partly because humans are more commonly right-eye dominant than left-eye dominant.[24][25][26] In left-hand traffic, the predominantly better-performing right eye is used to monitor oncoming traffic and the driver's wing mirror. In right-hand traffic, oncoming traffic and the driver's wing mirror are handled by the predominantly weaker left eye. In addition, it has been argued that left sided driving is safer for elderly people given the likelihood of them having visual attention deficits on the left side and the need at intersections to watch out for vehicles approaching on the near-side lane.[27] Furthermore, in a RHD car, the driver has his right (i.e. dominant) hand on the steering wheel at all times and use his left hand to change gear.

Prove it.

Harry:
First, driving on the left is safer:

Prove it.

That would be the right thing to do (and it is feasible, Norway did it in the 50s or 60s, I can't remember), but one of the charms of Britain (for Ireland, I don't know..) is that it does things differently from the rest of Europe..

Fine. Which needs to stick out more into on-coming traffic when checking to see if it is safe to overtake in Poland: a standard LHD vehicle or a RHD vehicle fitted with a video camera on the outside edge of the left-hand wing mirror and a flipdown LCD screen in the sunvisor?

Fine.

The accident rate in Poland is simply down to the incompetent idiots they let on the roads

I've driven a rhd car in Poland for nearly 3 years and 70,000 miles and never had a problem at all, When overtaking you just have to adjust your road position accordingly and its just as safe as driving a LHD.

The accident rate in Poland is simply down to the incompetent idiots they let on the roads and nothing to do with which side they drive on.

Would the same adjustments on a LHD not make it also safer?

I quoted the same article.

I don't think it is as safe.

Over the course of the 20th century, there was a gradual worldwide shift from driving on the left to the right.

The most common reason for countries to switch to right-hand traffic is for conformity with neighbours, as it increases the safety of cross-border traffic.

Yes it would. So in the name of safety we need to ban all LHD cars which do not have that system.

I have seen some better evidence, let me try to dig it up.

And this is based on you driving a RHD car here for how long?

It seems to be quite a good idea when driving a RHD abroad.

You don't even drive Harry.

You appear to know rather less than you think you do.

To add an influx of poles in rhd vehicles to the mix would be a bad idea.

To be honest I think Ireland and Britain should just change sides

To add an influx of poles in rhd vehicles to the mix would be a bad idea.

To add an influx of poles in rhd vehicles to the mix would be a bad idea.

There's nothing stopping Poles from driving RHD vehicles: they just can't register them (which means they probably don't have insurance either).

taking your right hand off the steering wheel to change gear and adjust the heating etc

Get a car with auto shift and heating!

Cars with automatic gearboxes are inherently more dangerous than cars with manual gearboxes.