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Why does Britain drive on the left when everyone else drives right?
On horses, most people traveled left, their dominant hand on the right ready to defend or attack oncoming strangers.
On carriages, aristocrats kept to the left again.
Commoners were pushed to the right, away from faster moving coaches.
In 1789, the French Revolution broke the aristocratic order, and as a symbol of equality, everyone was forced to drive on the right.
Enter Napoleon.
As he conquered Europe, nation by nation switched to the right as well.
But Napoleon failed to conquer Britain.
Instead, they spread their traditional left across all their empire India, Australia, Japan, much of Africa.
And that's why Britain and its former colonies drive left to this day, while the rest of the world follows Napoleon.