Yes that’s true. Most of the Left Hand drive world is former British colonial. Except for the population size of India, the vast majority of the world drives on the Right. If a company wants to produce vehicles, do you incur the expense of an entirely separate build process for a small minority of the population? Some might but most would pick the majority and build for that.
Tesla has plans to start production in India soon. I wonder how they’ll cope up in India which also predominantly has left hand drive.
The long tail of global colonialism ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
Also, while not entirely accurate, an even older history, ahem, driving, the modern world http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Without India I suspect Driving on the Left would be relegated to history books by simple economics.
Though with EVs a lot of the production costs of doing both could be eliminated.
Auatralia drives on the left
Yes that’s true. Most of the Left Hand drive world is former British colonial. Except for the population size of India, the vast majority of the world drives on the Right. If a company wants to produce vehicles, do you incur the expense of an entirely separate build process for a small minority of the population? Some might but most would pick the majority and build for that.
And doesn’t make cars any more. If it became increasingly prohibitive to source LHD vehicles, I’m sure they’d decide to switch around.
I don’t think we would
Japan is where we get a lot of our cars from… And they’re RHD. So even if companies like tesla stop producing them we’ll still have others to buy from