Here it is:

When the car was first developed/invented, debate surfaced about on which side of the vehicle, the driver should sit.

Keep in mind that, in those days, all cars were operated with a stick shift lever, mounted into the floor of the vehicles.

Some engineers logically reasoned that the gearshift lever should be placed on the driver’s right-hand side, because the overwhelming majority of human beings are RIGHT-HANDED, and the gearshift lever should be operated with one’s “dominant” hand.

Thus, it was decided, and correctly so, that the driver should sit on the left side of the automobile, and operate the floor-mounted gearshiuft lever with his/her right hand.

Even in Austalia and the UK and Japan, the majority of the populace are right-handed.

Now you know why the USA & Canada & Mexico are “right.”

August 29, 2008, 9:30 AM EDT