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Often it is. It's a perfectly good answer to, for example, "why do we drive on the side of the road that we do?"

• robert_tweed 10y ago
  I sometimes wonder if handedness or eye dominance have any effect on accident statistics.
• jobigoud 10y ago
  If the choice really is arbitrary then yes. If there was a compelling argument to driving one side or the other then it would cease to be a good answer IMHO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
  • sevenless 10y ago
    Given that most people are right handed and right eye dominant it's surprising there isn't a widely accepted 'right answer' for the best side of the road to drive on.
    • kazinator 10y ago
      Maybe it's because driving involves both eyes and both hands.
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• kazinator 10y ago
  How is "because we've always done it that way" an answer to "why do we drive on the side of the road that we do?" It's more or less just a re-statement of the question. And it's wrong: we haven't always driven on that side of the road. We don't always drive on that side now; it depends on where in the world we find ourselves. Left versus right is symmetric: there is no inherent advantage. Both choices have exactly the same advantages and disadvantages, just with "left" and "right" swapped. Whether or not to include a factor of two isn't symmetric in this way.