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When driving, are you able to keep the car perfectly centered or slightly off to the side? (lemmy.world)
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Assume left handed driving, right handed drivers please reverse the direction lol.

What i meant was that are you able to leave perfect spaces on the left and on the right? Or you tend to drift little more to one side e.g. 51/49 drift toward the left instead of 50/50 exactly?

I notice that experienced drivers drift to the side too. So i am curious and i have my theories for this:

  1. Drivers are more likely to drift just a bit toward their driver side. E.g. for left hander driving that means drifting toward the left. This is because the wing mirror is the closest to the driver, so it is easier for the eyes to follow and track.

  2. I've been to places where we have to share roads with bikes and motocycles. So a lane road is literally 2 lane: cars need to hug the left lane to create spaces on the right. So drivers from those countries are keen to drift to the left; even when they are on the highway without any motocycles.

  3. For left handed driving, you usually dont drift to to the right UNLESS you are on the phone or using the giant touchscreen while driving.

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[–] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

There's an adage I've hard a couple times across developing countries where the edges of the road have pedestrians, random animals darting out, and are usually crumbing anyway, "keep your heiney on the liney." Basically, keep far enough from the edge you get extra time to react, and still far enough over that you just move back for curves, hills, and cars passing the other direction or overtaking you. Driver fully over the center line.

Honestly, it feels much safer once you start to get used to it. Not for every day use, just highways.

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