[SOC] Left vs. right - The Brit point of view

[Paul Bartlett]

>
> As explained in the 1st paragraph, left-side driving was the rule
previously.
> French revolution done, we were looking to "clean off" all things from the
past.
> By that time, the people rich enough to have horses and cars were the
"High
> classes"; the lower classes having to walk on the other side of the street
(the
> right-side, at counter-sense).
> Hence, driving on the left was a remember of the "High classes". So we
switched
> to right-side driving for everybody to eliminate this "discrimination".
> Nothing to do with the fact that Napoleon was left-hand and his army
having to
> walk of the right side.
>
Hey! Wait a minute.

Doesn't this mean that half the people were walking/riding/driving
backwards?

P#529;-)