Samoa goes RHD!

[konadog]

Thought this was interesting...
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/0 ... ng007.html

[josh]

There are at least 7,000 Samoans living in New Zealand and another 30,000 in Australia. The government hopes they will send their smaller fuel-efficient left-hand drive cars to relatives in Samoa, thereby precluding the need to buy big American gas guzzler cars that are typically right-hand drive.

I just thought it funny that they got the LHD and RHD switched around. What a funny concept, all for the hope of vehicle handouts. Imagine all the infrastructure changes, such as all traffic lights and street signs.

Josh

[Green1]

imagine the advantage though of avoiding north american vehicles!

[Erebus]

they got the LHD and RHD switched around.

That little oopsie has been fixed in the version now on-line. I've always been amused that LHD vehicles drive on the right, while RHD vehicles drive on the left.

Presumably, the BC and Quebec governments figure all Samoans should be dead within weeks due to accidents.

[Green1]

Presumably, the BC and Quebec governments figure all Samoans should be dead within weeks due to accidents.

worse yet, the governments will use any collisions as an example to how dangerous it is to have the steering wheel on the "wrong" side while completely ignoring that the real cause of the collisions is the confusion of suddenly driving on the other side of the ROAD!

[mararmeisto]

Presumably, the BC and Quebec governments figure all Samoans should be dead within weeks due to accidents.

worse yet, the governments will use any collisions as an example to how dangerous it is to have the steering wheel on the "wrong" side while completely ignoring that the real cause of the collisions is the confusion of suddenly driving on the other side of the ROAD!

SEE! They crashed. And it's most likely, probably, well maybe, I mean it makes the most sense, because they were sitting on the right-hand side of the car, which is obviously, because most of the rest of the world sits on the left-side of the vehicle, the wrong side of the car. Left is right, because right can't be right.

Can it?

Those crazy Samoans.

At the end of the story, if there is 7000 Samoans living in New Zealand, and 30000 living in Australia, how many are actually back on the island waiting for all those RHD vehicles to be 'gifted' back to them for their newly driving-on-the-left-side-of-the-road ways?