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Kel-Elysia
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Postby Kel-Elysia » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:47 pm

Suicide. Seriously, you are not from the Empire if you consistently drive on the right side of the road.
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YellowApple
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Postby YellowApple » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:05 pm

OOC: How did this thread end up in my posts...?

Anyway, YellowApplans don't have a defined 'side' of the road, since all roads are defined as one-way, and all intersections are implemented as off-ramps and circles. However, since circular intersections are always counter-clockwise, it's assumed that YellowApplans drive on the right.

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Towson
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Postby Towson » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:11 pm

Right Side.
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Eahland
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Libertarian Police State

Postby Eahland » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:31 pm

YellowApple wrote:OOC: How did this thread end up in my posts...?

'Cause you posted in it two years ago when it was current.

Anyways:
Eahland, several times already, wrote:We drive on the right side of the road, a tradition that likely originated many hundreds of years before the invention of the motor vehicle with the desire to keep the shielded left side towards a stranger met on the road.
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Miraclian Antilles
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Founded: Feb 13, 2011
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Miraclian Antilles » Tue Jan 29, 2013 7:47 pm

We drive on the left on Guam, and on the right on Guadeloupe.

YellowApple wrote:OOC: How did this thread end up in my posts...?
Cuz someone dug a great big hole & unearthed this thread...

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Arkiasis
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Founded: Aug 30, 2011
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Postby Arkiasis » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:22 pm

We drive wherever the hell we want to! Nah, but seriously we drive on the right. You're driving a car, not jousting. Crazy Brits.
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Phocidaea
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Postby Phocidaea » Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:33 pm

The right. Unlike every other large island nation, if Britain, Japan, and maybe Australia are any indication.

This is because our first exposure to automobiles was mostly through American producers.
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Pacificius
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Postby Pacificius » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:05 pm

Right side.
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Carena
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Postby Carena » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:02 pm

Right
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Auzkhia
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Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Auzkhia » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:48 am

We drive on the left side of the road, just like any civilized nation.
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Democratic Koyro
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Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby Democratic Koyro » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:54 am

We drive on the left side of the road, the much more logical option.
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Volnotova
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Postby Volnotova » Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:03 am

Whatever it is that passes for "roads" on Sedamodan (assuming this is MT/PMT): (I reccomend that you) expect your fellow members/code abiders/"apostates"/whatever way you might categorise or view them to drive any way they like.

Left, right, middle. Even up/down.

Would (generally) make operating vehicles(Especially the "Semi/Quasi-Levitating Vehicles") on Sedamodan(and elsewhere) rather difficult for (most) eartheners (in major Volnotov(i)an population centres).

But again, there are many reason for the latter, besides the rather (near ubiquitous) anarchic situation prevailing along, on and among Volnotov(i)an build/controlled/operated infrastructure (lanes).

/typical Volnotov(i)an semantics
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Jetan
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Jetan » Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:23 am

We drive on the right side.
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Khymas Zjelsje
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Postby Khymas Zjelsje » Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:24 am

Zelsian traffic (of the vehicular and pedestrian kind) is primarily left-hand. Even before the introduction of motor vehicles to the archipelago, it was considered standard and courteous to walk on the left-hand side in any bi-directional traffic. How this tradition got started is anyone's guess, particularly because much of the rest of the world follows right-handed traffic rules.
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Ko-oren
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Ko-oren » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:24 am

The right side. Always have.
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Afalia
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Postby Afalia » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:26 am

The left side by tradition.

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Feuerburg Republic
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Founded: Jan 29, 2013
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Postby Feuerburg Republic » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:30 am

Our nation is really small. They don't need cars.
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Malaysii
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Ride on Left Side, Right Side, or Suicide

Postby Malaysii » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:46 am

We drive on the left side here.

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Stormaen
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Founded: Mar 15, 2010
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Stormaen » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:50 am

We drive on the left.
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Urran
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Urran » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:51 am

left. when we do drive, we mostly have trains
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Brythonica
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Postby Brythonica » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:19 am

Traffic drives on the left in Brythonica.
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Nationalist Eminral Republic
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Postby Nationalist Eminral Republic » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:31 am

Right.
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TurtleShroom
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Postby TurtleShroom » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:46 pm

Slothtonia wrote:Slothtonian citizens are rabidly Libertarian and chafe at any attempts by the Government to tell them what to do. Most refuse to follow road signs and driving etiquette as a matter of principle.

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Urran wrote:when we do drive, we mostly have trains

^ This!

Officially, TurtleShroom drives on the right side of the road, but it really only matters on the four lane Postal Routes, which connect major cities. With dirt roads being so sparse and cars being a luxury for the wealthy, the only vehicles travelling in TurtleShroom are trains (which travel one way) and busses (which travel on dirt roads in the center to minimize bumping).
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United States of Raptors
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Postby United States of Raptors » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:55 pm

Licana wrote:Right side, like any civilized nation.


Like saurisia said, what does that have to do with being civilized?

If anything Great Britian and Japan are more civilized than most nations and they drive on the left.

In the USoR we drive on the right side of the road in most areas, we do however have roads that are used as practice courses for driving on the left side just in case any of our citizens ever go to a nation that does that.
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Kedri 2
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Founded: Jan 16, 2013
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Postby Kedri 2 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:15 pm

We drive on the right
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