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My friend in England has just told me about how whilst on a trip to America, her mum and her got held up by some jerk with a gun.
Now I could make this about America's right to bear arms. But I won't because that's just another case of the few ruining something for the many, in my opinion.
When it's all adults in the car you can probably assume the guy who owns the car, would be driving it, and would have their wallet/purse on them out of certainty because that's where we keep drivers licenses.
What it did make me think is that you drive on the wrong side of the road. When children get driven to school or anywhere the oldest, most rob-worthy (pardon the term) person on the road side. Because they have their children with them, they're almost certain to have money with them cause kids always want this and that and don't have their own money.
There are other situations, but my main points are: driving = license = wallet/purse = (usually) certainly of money; Driver is usually the most protective of the others in the car, and thus most likely to give up money to save the lives of the others; Driver is really the only one with the opportunity to save them at all, and with a gun to the head the easiest way to do that is by giving out your money.
The big connection with all these? A thief can't (usually) attack someone from the middle of the road. But in American (from what I've heard all the time, and seen half the time) people drive on the roadside, where they're the most succeptible to thieves and Scotsman?
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Except for the fact that the wheel is on the left side of the car in America. The driver is still in the middle, like in England. The only exception to this is mail trucks.
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Foutunatly, despite what you may see in movies, such situations are still so rare in the US that it need not be a consideration in designing cars.
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Well if that's the case then my friends mom was probably driving in their own car from England.
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quote:Originally posted by cheiros do ender: What it did make me think is that you drive on the wrong side of the road. When children get driven to school or anywhere the oldest, most rob-worthy (pardon the term) person on the road side.
Dude, that's hilarious. This was intended as satire, right?
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The only places where the driver is ever toward the outside of the lane are places where the driving is on one side, but the cars come from a country where they drive on the other. Specifically, I am thinking of Carribean former commonwealth countries, where the bulk of the cars come from America.
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