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Where/when did this Left/Right confusion start? 200

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posted by  lucid on  Wed Apr 27 03:45 CST 2005
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I agree with Tony,
" I would say the Passenger side is the Right side. I refer to the cars sides from the Drivers seat looking out.
In the U.S. the drivers seat is on the Left side of the car."

AFAIK, nobody gets mixed up on other vehicles. I mean we don't need to refer to an airliner by "Pilot's side" or "Co-pilot's side". Seems intuitive to me that anything with a front and a back will also have a left side and a right side.

Speaking as a codger, I think this "driver's/passenger's side" thing crept in maybe 20/25 years ago -- and has taken firm root somehow.
I wonder what Andy Rooney thinks about it?
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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.






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