Today I Found Out

That Time Sweden Changed Its Traffic Direction in a Single Day (2019x60)

Fecha de emisión: Mar 01, 2019

Check out my other channel TopTenz! https://www.youtube.com/user→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: The Truth About Big Ben and the Famous Clock Tower https://youtu.be/Ci4lhArVpzw In this video: Not a spur of the moment decision, the Högertrafikomläggningen (“The right hand traffic diversion”) had been planned for years prior to implementation, in recognition of the inherent problems that arose by the fact that among the nations of Continental Europe, Sweden was the only country where people still drove on the left. (If you’re curious why, see: Why Some Countries Drive on the Right and Some Countries Drive on the Left.) In addition, the architects of the plan tapped into the widespread perception that having the steering wheel on the left while also driving there caused more head-on collisions. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/01/time-sweden-changed-traffic-direction-single-day-dagen-h/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/dagen-h-the-day-sweden-switched-sides-of-the-road-photo/2012/02/17/gIQAOwFVKR_blog.html http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http://hem.bredband.net/b132258/hogertrafik/Dagen_H.htm&sl=sv&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-H5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vaMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4015%2C455407 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lp8tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PKAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4803%2C566394