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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Right hand drive cars pedal arrangements?
Message-ID: <316@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 10:46:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 10:46:42 1985
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> > I have a friend that is planning a trip to New Zealand.  He
> > was wondering how the pedals (gas, brake, clutch) were laid
> > out in a right-hand drive car.  Is the layout a "mirror"
> > image of the left-hand drive car or is it the same?

Yet another thing to be careful of: rotaries go the wrong way!

I had no problem with reversed pedals, shifts etc. (though the phantom
mirror problem was annoying.) Also right hand turns in intersections
should be taken with the same precaution one uses for a left hand turn
state-side. (One normally turns sensors to full on left turns, sensors to 
about 1/3 for right.)

Really though, not to worry. By the way, New Zealand was nice but they chopped
all the trees down.