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"...a steering wheel you could move to the passenger side, for those trips to Canada" Does someone really believe that we drive on the left-hand side of the ro

• diziet 10y ago
  Perhaps it is implying that driving to Canada takes a long time and you would want to easily switch responsibility of driving with your passenger?
• anexprogrammer 10y ago
  Like Canada was all by themselves in the 1900s? They started out with French speaking parts driving on the right, English parts the left - until the 20s or 30s.
• rfrey 10y ago
  From the article: "Why would you want to do this? For countries that drive on the other side of the road. Like Canada. But, oops: they drive on the same side of the road, not the other side, so we see humorous bit #1: feigned American ignorance of Canada. But oops, again: assuming a left-side steering wheel is an AmericanCulturalAssumption - you might really want to change the side it's on if you're British and you're driving to Canada. That's humorous bit #2: we've caught the picky people in an unwarranted assumption (and a USAian one, at that!). Humorous bit #3 is the sheer unlikelihood of a British (or Japanese/Australian/Indian) person driving to Canada, after all. That's the explanation. But it doesn't make the joke any funnier."