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Map about vehicle regation

the map about vehicle regulation appears unreliable. Australia is said to approve registration of "wrong-hand-drive" vehicles, but actually doesn't! (excepting, maybe, diplomatic vehicles and some special categories). EU-countries, on the contrary, have to allow the registration of "wrong-hand-drive", but the map wrongly says the don't. 87.6.177.68 (talk) 17:11, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Traffic direction of railway and subway

It would be better to organize the 'traffic directions of railways and subways by country' in an easy-to-recognize table. 121.171.233.10 (talk) 01:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Left-hand traffic in the British occupation zone in Allied-occupied Germany?

Topic moved to here from Talk:Allied-occupied Germany#Left-hand traffic in the British occupation zone?

I wonder why left-hand traffic wasn't introduced in northern and central West-Germany, despite the British occupation of those parts (and the fact that Britain uses left-hand traffic). If British-occupied Germany had introduced left-hand traffic, just like present-day Tanzania/Kenya after WW1, it would most likely not have been any plans for Sweden (then with left-hand traffic) to switch to right-hand traffic (which Sweden now did in early September 1967).

If British-occupied Germany would have left-hand traffic, just as Britain, it might have been connected to the U.K. (without any switch between the right- and left-hand side) via a left-hand traffic motorway through Belgium (and on a bridge across the English Channel). 212.100.101.104 (talk) 20:36, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Macau error

Macau is listed as british colony and that's incorrect, Macau was under portuguese power, not british 2001:8A0:BA8C:7E00:ECC3:5524:1412:8042 (talk) 21:26, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot see where Macau is described as a British colony. Can you be more specific please? HiLo48 (talk) 01:41, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Modern decision of Japan and UK was done to favour local car makers? ==
-I'm fairly certain that Rolls Royce and Honda etc simply put the steering wheel on the opposite side to Ford for technical reasons - and the govts of those 2 countries simply wanted to assist their local car manufacturers when later making the decision - which forced Ford of The US to change the steering wheel for imports simply because it was foreign. Yes of course Ford is foreign everywhere outside The US, but other countries either didn't have carmakers or their local makers put the steering wheels on the same side as Ford.    <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/77.99.210.174|77.99.210.174]] ([[User talk:77.99.210.174#top|talk]]) 18:50, 12 May 2022 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-:The German and French industries were well-established before Ford and I'm 100% certain that the UK had motor manufacturers – Daimler and Lanchester to name but two – not only before the Ford Motor Company was founded but also from roughly the same time as Henry built his first quadricycle.  Ford's Trafford Park factory in Manchester Uk didn’t open until 1911. [[User:Mr Larrington|Mr Larrington]] ([[User talk:Mr Larrington|talk]]) 19:51, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
-:I have wondered why not left-hand traffic was introduced in the northern and central part of West Germany after World War II, although those parts of Germany became the British occupation zone. When the U.K. occupied Germany, it would have introduced left-hand traffic there, according to British model. Left-hand traffic in British-occupied Germany would most likely have stopped the Swedish plans to switch to right-hand traffic in Sweden, which then used LHT although most Swedish vehicles had the driver seat to the left rather than the right. [[Special:Contributions/212.100.101.104|212.100.101.104]] ([[User talk:212.100.101.104|talk]]) 17:53, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
-:There were several UK manufacturers before 1900, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_United_Kingdom#1896_to_1900.  That web page describes much activity in 1895 and 1896 and refers to the "claim for the first all-British motor car" being contested.  Therefore the choice of the side of the steering wheel would not be due to a desire to be different from the USA.  Reasons for not changing to RHT in more recent times are discussed in the web page to which this is the Talk page. [[User:JRGp|JRGp]] ([[User talk:JRGp|talk]]) 18:55, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
-::I wonder if Sweden would have planned a switch to RHT if the U.K. had introduced British left-hand traffic in the British occupation zone in the post-WW2 occupied Germany. Then Germany would most likely have had left-hand traffic, at least in the British occupation zone, and then most likely have contributed to an eventual switch to left-hand traffic in Denmark as well as to a stop to a switch to right-hand traffic in the then left-hand trafficked Sweden. [[Special:Contributions/212.100.101.104|212.100.101.104]] ([[User talk:212.100.101.104|talk]]) 23:40, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
-Most American cars seem to have been right-hand driven in the early 1900s. Perhaps at that time it was preferred to have the driver's seat on the curbside (which is the right-hand side in right-hand traffic) rather than on the side towards the oncoming traffic. But I wonder why the USA didn't switch to left-hand traffic when most cars were right-hand driven. If the USA is a former British colony, it should have left-hand traffic just as Britain - but it seems that the Americans tended (before they had cars) to drive wagons, drawn by more than two horses, from the left horse and therefore expected oncoming wagons to approach on the left, in order to be able to be attentive to oncoming traffic. But then why didn't the Americans start driving on the left when they produced cars with the driver's seat on the right-hand side of the vehicle? [[Special:Contributions/212.100.101.104|212.100.101.104]] ([[User talk:212.100.101.104|talk]]) 20:58, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
-== Language ==
-Most languages are written left to right. What about listing those languages which are written right to left such as [[Arabic]]? ----[[User:MountVic127|MountVic127]] ([[User talk:MountVic127|talk]]) 23:03, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 == Map about vehicle regation ==