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From: Wilba on 14 Nov 2009 20:22 Neil Harrington wrote: > Wilba wrote: >> >> Years ago I read that left-hand drive is safer overall, because when a >> person is startled they tend to raise their non-dominant hand to protect >> their head. > > I question that. In the only near-head-on accident I ever had in my life, > I instinctively threw up my right hand (the dominant one) just before > impact. Broke my right wrist on the windshield. I have more faith in a statistical analysis of scientific data than in a single anecdote. :- )
From: Wilba on 14 Nov 2009 20:24 Savageduck wrote: > > Well here is a photo of a stagecoach, driven from the right, and with the > type on the coach correct and not mirror imaged. > http://www.old-picture.com/old-west/pictures/Stagecoach-Western.jpg > > and anothers of what seems to be of great character drivers (on the right) > http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-oldwest/Deadwood%20stagecoach.jpg > http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/cerro_gordo2/stage_coach.jpg The answer is obvious - the brake lever is on the right for the benefit of right-handed drivers.
From: Wilba on 14 Nov 2009 20:39 R. Mark Clayton wrote: > > Japanese by contrast has an immensely complex verbal structure, Hmm, "immensely complex verbal structure" is the exact opposite of my experience with Japanese. I can explain everything you need to know about Japanese pronounciation in 5 minutes. As long as we're not talking about kanji, if you can see a word written you can pronounce it well, and if you hear a word clearly you can write it correctly, because of the simple phonemic structure. > ... three scripts and numerous other convolutions that mean Japanese > children do well to be fully conversant by the time they leave school > and foreigners have negligible chance of becoming conversant even > after living a year in the country. I guess you're talking about kanji, plus having three other mutually exclusive ways of writing, but the spoken language itself is very simple compared to English.
From: Wilba on 14 Nov 2009 20:48 Wilba wrote: > Bill Graham wrote: >> Savageduck wrote: >>> Savageduck said: >>>> Wilba said: >>>>> Savageduck wrote: >>>>>> Wilba said: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Years ago I read that left-hand drive is safer overall, because when >>>>>>> a person is startled they tend to raise their non-dominant hand to >>>>>>> protect their head. If at the time they are steering a car on the >>>>>>> left >>>>>>> of the road, 9 out of 10 will therefore sverve into oncoming >>>>>>> traffic. >>>>>>> Apparently the effect is statistically significant. >>>>>> >>>>>> It seems we left our history far behind. Have you ever noticed where >>>>>> the good old Wells Fargo stage coach driver sat, ...on the right, >>>>>> shotgun on the left. >>>>> >>>>> Don't see many of them 'round these here parts. :- ) >>>> >>>> Note the driver on the left. >>>> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Concord_stagecoach_1869.png >>> >>> Sorry, that was the right, the shot gun was on the left. >>> Now I don't know my left from my right! >> >> Are you sure the picture wasn't reversed? I don't see the, "Wells Fargo" >> logo written anywhere, so it could have been......Back in the "film" >> days, that happened a lot.......I wonder, is it possible to get a digital >> picture reversed? > > "The express messenger [armed guard] for stagecoaches typically rode in a > seat on top of the coach, next to the driver (this was usually on the > driver's left, since stage drivers typically sat on the right)" - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_messenger > > But if they were mostly using double-barrelled shotguns, there's no > to-the-right ejection. After seeing the other photos, it's clear to me that the driver sat on the right because the brake lever was on that side (for operation by the right-handed majority).
From: Wilba on 14 Nov 2009 20:55
Bill Graham wrote: > Wilba wrote: >> Bill Graham wrote: >>> >>> Maybe it had something to do with which side the shells were ejected >>> from when the rifle action was worked....It would be very annoying to >>> the driver if the hot shell casings were ejected into his face while he >>> was trying to get away from the bad guys..... >> >> But in that photo the driver is on the ejector side. > > I don't know how you can tell....different rifles eject the shells to > different sides.....As I remember, the M1 (used by US soldiers in WW-II, > ejected the shells to the right, but I have seen other guns that ejected > them to the left side.... As a general rule firearms are designed to eject on the opposite side from most shooter's faces. In all my years of civilian and military shooting, I don't recall any left-side ejection weapons - not saying they don't exist, just that they aren't common enough for me to remember ever seeing any. Anyway, it doesn't matter since it seems they mostly used shotguns, and the driver sat on the right where the brake lever was. |