Left-side traffic is not better than right-side traffic

The right hand rule is of primary importance in extremely low-traffic situations, in which the risk of accident is, similarly, low. In high traffic situations we have stoplights, and it is in high traffic situations that the most danger occurs by far. Further, though you may not be looking past someone, you are a greater distance from them-- and you could be looking past a car, which fact is harder to lean past than your mother in law. The comparison of different countries is fundamentally flawed, because there is more than one variable to how violent a country is or how dangerous it's roads are. In order to truly declare left-hand to be superior, you would have to find a country which once had right side traffic, and, in a short amount of time, with no other significant societal upheavals going on, have it switch to left side traffic, and it's statistics improve. This is the only empirical evidence which would be capable of establishing such, and after all, you assumed the burden of proof. The opposite (switching from left to right and experiencing a negative effect on traffic safety) would not be valid, since the very act of change could be assumed to have a negative effect on traffic, and therefore bias the comparison. "2. We are taught from a very young age that when crossing the road we must first look to the left (right-hand system) and right (left-hand system). Thus, looking to the right first is a well learned practice by the time we grow up. In the left-hand system this makes great foundation to deal with the right-hand rule. We already appreciate the significance of the right-hand side." Both sides are significant when crossing, thus, both are appreciated just fine. And since when can people already on a roundabout only approach from one side? The hand on the steering wheel is largely irrelevant, considering how steering with one-hand is a no-no in bad situations whichever hand it is. Far more important is to get whatever you are doing with the other hand done with so you can have both hands on the steering wheel again- and for this, it is far better to use the dominant hand for the other things. Further, the more coordinated hand you use for such things, the less you have to actually be able to look at them- your muscle memory can be sufficient. I'd rather have my left hand on the steering wheel and my eyes on the road than my right hand on the steering wheel and my eyes on whatever I'm doing with my left hand-- and if it's the left doing it, my eyes are needed. Drive throughs have essentially zero danger when you are stopped to grab the goods, so they are wholly irrelevant, unless you want exercise to grab the food, in which case twisting your body is far superior. If you are evacuating a vehicle sideways, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG. Anyone who can't turn and exit the vehicle in one motion, seeing what they're exiting into, isn't physically capable of surviving such an incident anyway. As for the availability of AK-47s-- just because something isn't legally available doesn't mean it isn't available. And if fewer people have it, your country is all the more vulnerable to a nutjob criminal cruising along the interstate and firing away.