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By my count based on population data from Wikipedia, the left-hand side driving countries have about 2.771 billion people, which is 34.5% of the world's populat
by mkl 3y ago
By my count based on population data from Wikipedia, the left-hand side driving countries have about 2.771 billion people, which is 34.5% of the world's population. That seems big enough to sustain right-hand-drive car production. Most of the left-hand side driving countries are grouped together in clusters or are islands. Suriname and Guyana, and Hong Kong and Macau seem like they might benefit from switching.
- redox99 3y agoMore than half of that is India. And high end vehicles such as the Model S are probably very rare there. So although true that it's big enough to sustain right-hand-drive car production, it might not be big enough to sustain high-end car production.
- sokoloff 3y agoSurely new cars sales volume per year is far more relevant than population to car companies who are making product strategy decisions. I'd be shocked if a third of new car sales today were RHD. (It was surprisingly hard to google for that data; I gave up after about 10 minutes of searching.)