We still have our wonderful Mercedes Estate and feel no need to drive in the middle of the road because, in our RHD car, we can actually see the edge of the verge more clearly.
We do not practice tailgating and do not feel the need to overtake, no matter what the road condition.
So the answer is no!
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so for you the answer may well be no but as for some others… Surely you can accept that?
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I heartily agree that for some others … they do have difficulty when the steering wheel is on the “wrong” side of the car for the roads…
Many French pals have British cars with RHD (classics and not so classic) and I have watched with horror as some of them veer to the left when going around a righthand bend… whereas I, in my little rhd modernish… I stick close to the fosse… (on the rhside of the road… )… 
and, yes, I do overtake when safe to do so…
I have both LHD and RHD cars. I much prefer driving the LHD but I have never felt that the RHD car car was any less safe.
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Yes But In my country of origin we drive on the same side
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fair enough… that must make it easy for you here in France… do you ever take your car to UK??? 
or anywhere RHD???
Around here the most offenders are rhd Range Rover don’t think many French people whold drive them
If I travel to the uk I rent a car there instead and most countries in the world drive lhd
A bit unfair to blame it all on the Yanks. I remember an incident when a certain Prince Philip drove out into a major road and was lucky not to have killed a car full of people. Seems like he has some kind of immunity from prosecution too.
I was enraged by the news report that said that one of the passengers “broke her wrist.” No! That wasn’t something she did to herself. . . .
True Tim, I often drive right hookers here and left hookers in the UK or Ireland. I don’t find it too much of an issue except for paying in carparks. You do have to remind yourself whether you should you be driving sitting in the ditch or on the crown of the road. I haven’t been with out the odd wobble over the years.
But was she driving a LHD? I wouldn’t think that they’s shipped a car over with them, they can bu them tax free in the UK and would get an assignment allowance.
I’m not in a good mood with Yanks at the moment Mike. If they get rid of the madman Trump I may reasses my position, but at the minute I believe that they “don’t give a damn”. Since WWII their military adventures have caused havoc and now they’re expanding that havoc to the WHO, the UN, etc. Decades and decades of work is being undone by this administration.
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I don’t know about the US bases in the UK but on the US bases in Germany they shipped everything over. A huge number of the American servicemen drove US spec cars even if many of them were from Japanese not American manufacturers. British Forces personnel were actually able to buy cars through the American system but despite the apparent massive savings few did as they would be end up with a car that would be hard to register once the returned to the U.K. One of my friends was seriously considering buying a Mustang that way because it would have been cheaper than a run of the mill Ford Escort at the time.
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Yes, I remember years ago there used to be car manufacture export sales operations targeting US overseas personnel, in Germany for example. But that’s why it made no sense for US folk posted abroad to ship cars with them. They could buy a US spec car tax free in Europe and ship it home when they moved back. I Googled it to see if it still existed but couldn’t find it. Maybe the legal specifications for US cars and European ones have diverged so much now that a US spec car cannot be used here except on six month export plates?
Are the US Forces cars in the UK UK registered or do they have a US registration. The US Forces cars in Germany had American Forces Europe’s plates similar to the BFG plates that the British Forces use. None of the personnel posted to Germany used British or German registered cars.
Majority of BFG troops bought tax free from NATO Cars or NAAFI so they were RHD. and in a lot of cases were rejects from Vauxhall. Later a lot bought their cars from AUDI/VW dealers in RHD configuration. I used to buy LHD apart from the VX4/90 and my Sproggy both being RHD. The Sproggy is still mobile in Werl to this day. A mate of mine bought her.
Actually, the US forces had US plates and the BFG had BFG plates. After 9/11 they changed to German plates for both.
I wonder if that had certificate of conformity implications? It’s hard to imaging the Germans having cars on their register with different CoCs.
When I was was a student in Germany I remember seeing in the Badische Zeitung that some serviceman, can’t remember whether BAOR or US, drove some armoured vehicle, either an APC or a tank possibly, into a tram. Not local to me (and I was 17, a long time ago) hence the vagueness.
John, the registration authorities were military for the servicemen. So the German Traffic offices had nothing to do with it. When they changed to all German plates, the respective forces had a quota of German plates and these were allocated to the vehicles. The respective military traffic offices informed the German offices which numbers had been allocated and they flagged the registration number so the cops knew they were military personnel. We didnt worry about CoC’ in those days ( there probably wasnt any as such) bear in mind this was upto the end of the 90’s. A bit different now.