A right-hand-drive car on the left side of the road gives the driver a better view of oncoming traffic -- very handy when overtaking or making a right-hand turn.

Life & Culture Car goes airborne after road buckles in extreme heat: watch the video here Updated: Jun. 24, 2025, 11:26 a.m. | Published: Jun. 24, 2025, 11:25 a.m.

Watch road buckle, car go airborne: Blackwell told Storyful he had been filming a bulge in the road but wanted a better angle when he caught the road buckling.

Britain consolidated this into a road rule in 1835, but not before France and the U.S. chose to do the exact opposite. In France and the early U.S. of the late 1700s, teams of horses began hauling ...