Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

On 13/11/2011 8:11 PM, Andr=E9 Neves wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Art Kocsis<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Another example of the costs of opposite arbitrary choices: Go to the UK=
 or
>> New Zealand and drive a car (or vice versa if you are already there). Or
>> even step off the side walk in traffic and notice which direction you lo=
ok.
>> Here the consequences may be fatal.
> Actually, according to Wikipedia, =ABoriginally most traffic drove on
> the left worldwide=BB.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#History
>
> So I guess the choice to change was the one to drive on the right hand si=
de.
> And I don't think it was arbitrary either.
>
> HTH

You can make equally good cases for driving left and for driving right. =

Thus, either choice is arbitrary. But making different choices in =

different parts of the world is stupid.

Wolf K.