Why people of the UK drive on the WRONG side of the road?!?

We've been driving on the left side of the road longer then then U.S was even colonized.

Why would anybody with any real intelligence ask such a question? Australians like myself all drive on the correct side of the road.

the Romans drove on the left side of the road. It is more natural because their swords could be sheathed on the left and drawn with the right to confront enemies oncoming. The only reason that the rest of Europe (and therefore the USA) drove on the right is that Napoleon was left handed and changed it all over.

Because! It's the CORRECT side of the road to us.

CORRECT side of the road as pointed out by RR, we are not alone. We have been driving that way since the horse and cart. Check out this - Railroad tracks. The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates designed the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's *** came up with this?' , you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ***. And you thought being a horse's *** wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses in Washington are controlling everything else

Just to pi$$ of dumb Yanks.

we drive on the correct side of the road - it is you who are WRONG

NO!!!! Its the Europeans and the Yanks who drive on the wrong side. Historically it was always left side, but Napoleon and the Amercian Independence moved to the wrong side!!!!

As stated, it is because most people are right handed and therefore wore their sword on their left side, drawing it with their right hand they could then protect their body from anyone passing on their left (who being right handed would pursue the same protection). If someone approached you with their sword on their RIGHT side you would know they were left handed. If they ALSO approached you from the right you would assume they were hostile and it would be prudent to take the appropriate action. It is for the same reason that people shake hands with their right hand, you can't draw your sword, therefore it becomes an act of trust and friendship. America does not have a European history before the 1600's and principally not before Independence in the 1700's when swords were of much less significance. Their choice of road manners would have depended on practical circumstances relevant to them. Watch films where jousting takes place. Right handed knights MUST meet their opponent on the left ( if they are to stand any chance). Even the actors need to do this!!