This was a time when those who had the opportunity and reason to travel – primarily the rich and powerful – wore a sword on their left hip. In the Middle Ages, people continued to walk and drive on the left. Coincidentally, this fundamental discovery was made – where else? – in England, specifically near Swindon. The deeper ruts, made by heavily laden vehicles as they drove away from the quarry, were on the left side of the road. Ruts worn into a stone road, discovered by archaeologists near a major Roman quarry, clearly showed who was correct: those who had contended that the Romans drove on the left. The ingenious network of important roadways over the sprawling empire suggested that clear rules had to be applied in this strategically important area long before the first traffic signs and traffic lights were invented. Until recently, scientists were debating whether the Romans, masters in the construction of stone roads and organisers of massive troop marches, drove and walked on the right or the left. We know from history that, even two thousand years ago, it was important to have order in transport. Consequently, you can prepare your car for safe driving on the “wrong” side of the road (whether left or right) yourself in no time at all. Today, all ŠKODA models with bi-xenon or LED headlights have this handy feature. Not only did it simplify the production, but the owners of these cars also avoided the inelegant obligation to put stickers on their headlights when driving from the Continent to the UK or vice versa. These headlamp stickers stopped oncoming traffic from being dazzled.
With AFS bi-xenon headlights, it was already possible, a decade ago, to switch the luminous flux to right/left-hand drive via a simple user change directly in the trip computer thanks to the headlamps’ modern design. ŠKODA introduced an interesting feature in the second-generation SUPERB (2008-2015) in response to whether it was right-hand or left-hand drive.
However, this does not apply to ŠKODA cars, which always feature the same control set-up. On the other hand, certain control levers may be the other way round in cars where the steering wheel is on the right: the wipers are on the left and the direction indicators are on the right. In all cars, for example, the gears are shifted the same way, i.e. first gear is always top left, not mirrored.
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