Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

I had assumed (perhaps wrongly), that most of the posters here are in the 
US and
The original reasons for right or left side road travel are speculation and 
may
have some truth. However, for vehicular traffic, today it is arbitrary. 
Regardless,
it was a poor example as the thread subject is changing UIs, not simply 
choices.

The touch-tone phone interface change from the ten-key adding machine is still
a perfect example of a UI change that had no real benefit yet caused untold
confusion.

BTW - I could speculate that we drive on the right because the plethora of
operational controls on the early cars: gear shifting, spark advance, choke
settings, etc. and the right hand is (usually) far more dexterous and stronger
than the left.

Namaste',  Art

At 11/13/2011 17:11, drakferion 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 
> look.
> > Here the consequences may be fatal.

>Actually, according to Wikipedia, Originally most traffic drove on the 
>left worldwide. 
>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 side.
>And I don't think it was arbitrary either.
>HTH