People of Sweden Fear Switching to Right Hand Drive - "Dagen H" Report (1967)

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  • On 17 May 1967, ITN's Sandy Gall reported from the Swedish capital of Stockholm, as the country prepared to switch to driving on the right side of the road. The chosen date for the change, 3 September 1967, soon became known as Dagen H ("H Day"), a reference to "Högertrafik", the Swedish term for right-hand traffic. Gall interviewed Minister of Communications (and future prime minister) Olof Palme, members of the Swedish Automobile Assocation, and road users about the scheduled change.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 325

  • @CGW11
    @CGW11 2 місяці тому +106

    Note that Swedish cars even before the switch had the steering wheel on the left side. That was rare for left-hand traffic. It resulted in the driver being more protected, but overtaking being quite dangerous.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому +13

      The driver was 'more protected' only from 'dangers' from the right-hand side.
      The passenger - who had NO control over the vehicle - was placed in greater danger.

    • @CGW11
      @CGW11 2 місяці тому +5

      @@trueaussie9230 Correct. That was a very bad system.

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 2 місяці тому

      Långt före övergången i september 1967 insisterade biltillverkare i Sverige såväl som deras handlare och distributörer på att placera föraren så nära vägkanten som möjligt var “bättre” jämfört med den allmänna konsensus om att placera föraren så nära centrum som möjligt av vägen.
      Deras motivering var att det var lättare för bilförare att tillgodose passagerarnas behov.
      Det egentliga skälet var dock att den internationella marknaden - än mindre den svenska (inhemska) marknaden - för högerstyrda bilar var så ringa (d.v.s. ekonomiskt olönsam att masstillverka lika mycket) jämfört med de vänsterstyrda.

    • @100tallpaul
      @100tallpaul 2 місяці тому +1

      There is one other place that has this as well. The virgin islands. The British Virgin islands drive on the left with left hand drive cars and the American Virgin islands also do the same. Strangely, Gibraltar, being a British territory, drive on the right with left hand drive.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому

      @@100tallpaul
      "American Virgin Islands drive on the left in left-hand drive vehicles"?!
      Why?!
      That's just ridiculous.
      Do American service personnel not take their own cars there?
      They take them everywhere else.

  • @zebedep
    @zebedep 2 місяці тому +100

    A wonderful bit of film and everyone spoke perfect English.

    • @paulparoma
      @paulparoma 2 місяці тому +23

      Everybody was Swedish, too.

    • @bepivisintainer2975
      @bepivisintainer2975 2 місяці тому

      is a film you know? Staged for BBC as it is 😁

    • @antiantiderivative
      @antiantiderivative 2 місяці тому +3

      @@paulparomaJust like now. That’s kind of how nationalities work.

    • @paulparoma
      @paulparoma 2 місяці тому +11

      @@antiantiderivative Not really, but have it your way.

    • @annikabertelsen2739
      @annikabertelsen2739 2 місяці тому

      ​@@paulparomayou dont have a vote beqourseu its already demands by the elite

  • @WinterRapids
    @WinterRapids 2 місяці тому +75

    I'm amazed by the vocabulary and proper pronunciation from many of the people in this clip. This is 1967 after all.

    • @joelthorstensson2772
      @joelthorstensson2772 2 місяці тому +21

      Most Swedes by this point were taught English in schools.
      I myself started learning learning English in school when I was in 3rd grade (~9 y.o.)

    • @jannetteberends8730
      @jannetteberends8730 2 місяці тому +10

      We probably also only see the people that could speak English.

    • @MrTicky4
      @MrTicky4 2 місяці тому +7

      They have better english than northern english brexit lads

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 2 місяці тому

      Att 瑞典 erkänner & hjälper 河內-regimen under det andra Indokinakriget är bland annat hur underbart 瑞典 har varit med att göra sig dum i utrikespolitiken.
      Neutralt land min röv.

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 2 місяці тому

      Långt före övergången i september 1967 insisterade biltillverkare i Sverige såväl som deras handlare och distributörer på att placera föraren så nära vägkanten som möjligt var “bättre” jämfört med den allmänna konsensus om att placera föraren så nära centrum som möjligt av vägen.
      Deras motivering var att det var lättare för bilförare att tillgodose passagerarnas behov.
      Det egentliga skälet var dock att den internationella marknaden - än mindre den svenska (inhemska) marknaden - för högerstyrda bilar var så ringa (d.v.s. ekonomiskt olönsam att masstillverka lika mycket) jämfört med de vänsterstyrda.

  • @WinterRapids
    @WinterRapids 2 місяці тому +135

    The interviewed Minister of Communications, Mr. Olof Palme later became prime minister of Sweden but was sadly murdered in 1986.

    • @benvad9010
      @benvad9010 2 місяці тому +5

      Sweden is reaping what they’ve sown under his rule and his actions. What he did to the Afrikaner people is being relayed in kind.

    • @MohdTaufiq91
      @MohdTaufiq91 2 місяці тому +17

      @@benvad9010 lmao

    • @Alieth
      @Alieth 2 місяці тому

      @@benvad9010Afrikaners are always victims in their own head

    • @snackoman1577
      @snackoman1577 2 місяці тому +5

      @@benvad9010 lmfao

    • @Hongaars1969
      @Hongaars1969 2 місяці тому +17

      @@benvad9010 how can anyone justify someone being murdered.

  • @LapsangTe
    @LapsangTe 2 місяці тому +18

    For a Swede (who was just one year old when this took place) it's very interesting to watch this. The taxi driver feared that there would be an increase of the number of accidents, but it actually turned out to be the other way around. It might have had to do with the obvious fact that everyone drove more carefully the first few months, but another important factor was that most Swedish cars had their steering wheel on the left, so the cars were better adapted to driving on the right than on the left side.

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 2 місяці тому

      Långt före övergången i september 1967 insisterade biltillverkare i Sverige såväl som deras handlare och distributörer på att placera föraren så nära vägkanten som möjligt var “bättre” jämfört med den allmänna konsensus om att placera föraren så nära centrum som möjligt av vägen.
      Deras motivering var att det var lättare för bilförare att tillgodose passagerarnas behov.
      Det egentliga skälet var dock att den internationella marknaden - än mindre den svenska (inhemska) marknaden - för högerstyrda bilar var så ringa (d.v.s. ekonomiskt olönsam att masstillverka lika mycket) jämfört med de vänsterstyrda.

    • @annikabertelsen2739
      @annikabertelsen2739 2 місяці тому

      Propagandan i bet you like the green cars better then the pink cars in the candy cars box

  • @davidmatthews3093
    @davidmatthews3093 2 місяці тому +32

    They did not switch to Right Hand Drive they switched to driving on the right. The two things are completely different. Right Hand Drive, RHD is the term used for a car where the driving position is on the right of the car and is usually found where people drive on the left.

    • @Roddy556
      @Roddy556 2 місяці тому +4

      This is very true. They had left hand drive vehicles before and after mostly.

    • @OntarioTrafficMan
      @OntarioTrafficMan 2 місяці тому

      Yeah that left hand drive training kit made no sense. Swedish drivers were already used to left hand drive cars so the issue the driver describes from his travel to the UK was never going to be an issue in Sweden.

  • @Mishima505
    @Mishima505 2 місяці тому +31

    Yet amazingly there were fewer accidents than anticipated, drivers seemed to adapt quicker than they realised.

    • @VirreFriberg
      @VirreFriberg 2 місяці тому +1

      1967 had almost 300 less traffic deaths compared to both 1965 & 1966 which still hold the record for most road fatalities in Swedish history (both having 1313 deaths)

    • @YBM2007
      @YBM2007 2 місяці тому

      ​@@VirreFribergAutomotive and road safety was awful pretty much up until the 90s, a major accident had to be a near guaranteed fatality in those days

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 2 місяці тому +2

      @@YBM2007 Not when you were driving a Volvo with such innovations as seatbelts.

    • @YBM2007
      @YBM2007 2 місяці тому +2

      @@flitsertheo SAAB and Volvo were not exempt from these stats either, despite being a little more advanced in terms of safety

    • @annikabertelsen2739
      @annikabertelsen2739 2 місяці тому

      Ä

  • @LMB222
    @LMB222 2 місяці тому +25

    Czechoslovakia switched in 1939 - in very nuch different circumstances…

    • @Steve14ps
      @Steve14ps 2 місяці тому +9

      As did Austria around the same time

    • @ApprenPlayer
      @ApprenPlayer Місяць тому +1

      Because Austria-Hungary drove on the left side throughout history.

  • @Hongaars1969
    @Hongaars1969 2 місяці тому +24

    Sweden made a huge success of this.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 місяці тому +15

    No trams was withdrawn from Göteborg! On the contrary, the tram traffic was increased.

  • @hellion9547
    @hellion9547 2 місяці тому +21

    00:58 no way those pedestrians could see the camera... They must have wondered why the hell this englishman was standing by the railing talking calmly out in the air by himself

  • @Felixxxxxxxxx
    @Felixxxxxxxxx 2 місяці тому +5

    As a swede, i find it interesting that people tried to speak British English back in 67 and nowadays most people try to speak American English. Obviously we have an accent , but you can clearly hear that Olof Palme tries to speak British English.

  • @LJSheffRBLX
    @LJSheffRBLX 2 місяці тому +2

    ITN Archive, This is so fun! I'm happy I found your channel!

  • @timsvensson6530
    @timsvensson6530 2 місяці тому +2

    The most im impressed by this whole video is the Swedish people speaking so good English, for being in 1967.

  • @finnbar87
    @finnbar87 2 місяці тому

    Nice clip of an interesting historical subject. Thanks for that! I did put a thumb up and subscribed your channel as well! That wasn't noted on the clip, but we had increasing number of swedes coming to visit here to Finland months prior to the H-day to practise driving on the right side of the road.

  • @carl-johanivarsson8261
    @carl-johanivarsson8261 2 місяці тому +7

    Högertrafikgeneralen hette Lars Sköld (inte Scheld). "Mr Ahlgren" är Nils Ahlgren, VD för M (Motormännen).

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 2 місяці тому +1

    Parts of Canada also had to make a switch from driving on the left to driving on tge right. However, this was done mainly in the 1920's, when fewer people owned cars (except Newfoundland which didn't switch until 1947).

  • @gold3084
    @gold3084 2 місяці тому +1

    What they did not mention is a day or two before the switch, alcohol sales were stopped.

  • @centredoorplugsthornton4112
    @centredoorplugsthornton4112 2 місяці тому +9

    Iceland switched from left to right. Cyprus and Malta still drive on the left.
    Couldn't Volvo and Saab build right hand drive cars for the Swedish domestic market, or did they foresee H day and decide not to?
    After this, switching what side of the road was from right to left. Okinawa switched from right to left in 1978 and Western Samoa some years ago.

    • @northernblue1093
      @northernblue1093 2 місяці тому +2

      They didn't.

    • @pentti3715
      @pentti3715 2 місяці тому +3

      ​@@northernblue1093Iceland did.

    • @SuperKanonier
      @SuperKanonier 2 місяці тому +4

      Speaking from experience, drivers in Cyprus drive on whichever side of the road that takes their fancy!

    • @bofomalsi4146
      @bofomalsi4146 2 місяці тому +1

      Both Volvo and SAAB exported RHD cars to the U.K., but I think people were so used to LHD cars that they didn't want to change. LHD cars had some advantage at snowy conditions when it was difficult to feel where the road went over to the ditch.

    • @automation7295
      @automation7295 2 місяці тому

      @@northernblue1093 Iceland switched from left to right in 1968.

  • @PaulioBee
    @PaulioBee 2 місяці тому +16

    Even people overseas spoke in received pronunciation back in those days. 😂

  • @shaun30-3-mg9zs
    @shaun30-3-mg9zs 2 місяці тому +7

    As was said in the interview, should England swap sides from left to right and the Swedish gentleman said England should change, that wouldn't work because the neighbouring countries to England will still drive on the left, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Rep Ireland Isle of Man, Gurnsey and Jersey

    • @knowledgeisgood9645
      @knowledgeisgood9645 2 місяці тому +7

      Back then when people outside the UK talked about the UK they always said England. It was incorrect, but that was just accepted.

    • @shaun30-3-mg9zs
      @shaun30-3-mg9zs 2 місяці тому

      @@knowledgeisgood9645 Yeh I know, just joking

    • @flitsertheo
      @flitsertheo 2 місяці тому +1

      @@knowledgeisgood9645 The Scottish and Irish would keep driving on the other side just to annoy the English.

    • @knowledgeisgood9645
      @knowledgeisgood9645 2 місяці тому +5

      @@flitsertheo Then why not annoy them now and drive on the right? 😂

    • @claretblue2509
      @claretblue2509 2 місяці тому

      @@knowledgeisgood9645wouldn’t annoy us. Would just annoy yourselves

  • @diablobarcelona
    @diablobarcelona 2 місяці тому +1

    Wow, real Swedish people. Haven't seen any since Rodox videos

  • @johnscanlan9335
    @johnscanlan9335 2 місяці тому +1

    I actually remember hearing all about this big event in Sweden on American television when I was a child on, of all places, the very popular children's program Captain Kangaroo!!!

  • @de-fault_de-fault
    @de-fault_de-fault 2 місяці тому +3

    Right hand drive is not right hand running. They were switching to right hand running. Interestingly (and unlike other left hand running countries) Sweden had left hand drive even when they had left hand running.

  • @trueaussie9230
    @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому +5

    For clarification:
    'Right hand drive' refers to the vehicle configuration, not the driving orientation.
    'Right hand drive' countries drive on the LEFT HAND side of the road.
    'Left hand drive' countries drive on the RIGHT HAND side of the road.
    Sweden was changing to 'left hand drive' orientation.

    • @txquartz
      @txquartz 2 місяці тому

      Except their cars were mismatched, "left hand drive" while -also- driving on the left.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому

      @@txquartz
      How does that qualify as an 'EXCEPTION' to the definitions?! 🤔

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 Місяць тому

      @@trueaussie9230: AMELIORATE YOUR (OWN) LINGUISTIC ACUMEN AS WELL AS WELTANSCHAUUNG, YOU HYPOCRITICAL & RACIST IMBECILE!

    • @8August1988
      @8August1988 4 дні тому

      @@trueaussie9230: I find it extraordinary you possess the shameless hypocrisy & temerity to tell others off considering your pugnacity & (functional) illiteracy.

  • @robertrool8108
    @robertrool8108 2 місяці тому +8

    Well it made sense because the cars had steering on the left. Overtaking when you can't really see oncoming traffic like it was before 1968 was much more dangerous. Sweden is sparsely populates so 4 lane roads are between bigger towns only.

    • @ryan-ci9sl3mt3j
      @ryan-ci9sl3mt3j 2 місяці тому

      But why did the cars have steering on the left? It says because most were imported so then was this the same in the other left driving countries?

    • @OntarioTrafficMan
      @OntarioTrafficMan 2 місяці тому

      I think because there was such an open market between Sweden and neighbouring countries that manufacturers wouldn't want to bother making a separate version just for Sweden.

  • @29brendus
    @29brendus 2 місяці тому +3

    In Ireland we drive in the middle of the road along the dotted line. Much safer and friendlier for cyclists. If they ever switch us to the 'other' side, it won't make any difference, except that my favourite pubs are all on the left side.

  • @johnfh
    @johnfh 2 місяці тому

    It's very interesting to see this, and how it fits into my history.
    I was on holiday in Sweden in summer 1967, and there were lots of signs being prepared for use in September.
    The English that was taught was always British English, American English was seen as inferior... at that time!
    Even today, Swedes can still confuse England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.
    Nobody seemed to mention that Ireland drives on the left too - but Ireland was unknown to Swedes at that point.

  • @simonbone
    @simonbone 2 місяці тому +10

    As it turned out, the number of accidents went down after Dagen H, not up. Shame Britain didn't follow suit - 6 pounds per head would have paid for itself by being part of a much larger LHD car market.

    • @windoak
      @windoak 2 місяці тому +3

      Not quite, the cars in sweeden were already right hand drove so the conversion wasn't as difficult.
      LHD on RHD roads doesn't work quite well.

  • @RedDPhoenix
    @RedDPhoenix 2 місяці тому +1

    My country drive on the left like a few country in the world that drive in this position. I think I feel more comfortable to drive left hand side car on left position, not like drive right hand side on right position which is feel so oddly uncomfortable.

  • @CarlosVazquez-p4c
    @CarlosVazquez-p4c 2 місяці тому +1

    Finally,I will be able to drive 🚗 9:59 well in Sweden 🇸🇪 👏 😀 👍 👌 🙌

  • @julianneheindorf5757
    @julianneheindorf5757 2 місяці тому

    I remember when the change happened. It was a chaos for a few days. Iceland switched as well at some point. They drive on the right hand side of the road like everyone else today.

  • @topsyandpip56
    @topsyandpip56 2 місяці тому +25

    Fascinating to see a time when British English, and especially RP, was the standard export version of English across Europe. Olof Palme is speaking with almost perfect RP; I suspect today, his contemporary equivalent would be speaking like our transatlantic cousins. In many cases, a rather less pleasurable accent.

    • @michaelheimbrand5424
      @michaelheimbrand5424 2 місяці тому +8

      I'm Swedish and I try my best at speaking in RP when I need to speak English. I'm not saying I'm any good at it but there are way too many Swede's sounding like Americans. I much prefer British English and I don't see the logic in sounding American. We are much closer neighbors with the inventors of the English language than we are to the US.
      Another aspect which can be an explanation for Swede's sounding American is that a US accent is much more easy to learn (at least for us). But where's the fun in that...?

    • @oniondeluxe9942
      @oniondeluxe9942 2 місяці тому +1

      I would say, also as a native Swede, that it seems like people back then, at least in this news strip, were quite poor in speaking English, compared to how proficient Swedish people are today.
      If RP was the gold standard, people would probably have continued to mimic that still, but as seemingly the standard in UK these days is London or cockney accent, the North American accent is much easier to understand, in comparison.
      Further, Sweden has much more in common with the US than with the UK nowadays.

    • @erwinhun
      @erwinhun 2 місяці тому +5

      I think speaking RP would come across as a bit pretentious today, but at least the average Swede knows more words and better grammar today than back then. Obviously the individuals in the video express themselves well, I just think English is more acessible and relevant to the average Swede today.

    • @morriskaller3549
      @morriskaller3549 2 місяці тому

      Hur har Sverige mer gemensamt med USA? ​@@oniondeluxe9942

  • @davegeros9314
    @davegeros9314 2 місяці тому +2

    Bet they regretted getting rid of their trams, first fuel crisis followed only 6 years later in 1973.

    • @snitzer05
      @snitzer05 2 місяці тому

      Actually, Gothenburg still has their trams. They just had to be replaced since all the doors now faced the wrong way.

  • @markopinteric
    @markopinteric 2 місяці тому +15

    1967: Should the UK follow suit and switch to right-hand traffic?
    2024: The UK still uses the imperial system/miles on the roads.

    • @victorocallaghan6791
      @victorocallaghan6791 2 місяці тому +2

      Dead right. Is apart of UK culture

    • @miguelmeneses2792
      @miguelmeneses2792 2 місяці тому

      So was tubercolosis and bad teeth, but times change.​@@victorocallaghan6791

    • @jaswmclark
      @jaswmclark 2 місяці тому

      When I was on a coach tour of Scotland our bus diver stated that the United Kingdom would be swiyching driving sides in stages. On April first coaches and lorries would change and on the 15th, cars and motorcycles.

    • @martingrefen7792
      @martingrefen7792 2 місяці тому

      The Republic of lreland changed from miles to KM..went metric but still drive on the left

    • @markopinteric
      @markopinteric 2 місяці тому +1

      @@martingrefen7792 That is the point. It's much easier to change from miles to kilometres, and the UK didn't even manage that.

  • @andybray9791
    @andybray9791 2 місяці тому

    While James Callaghan (born in UK 1912-2005) was teaching about zebra crossings (or whatever it was) during 1940s, later became pm in 1976

  • @squirehaggard4749
    @squirehaggard4749 2 місяці тому +4

    And I thought decimalisation was a big change…

  • @KarlBaron
    @KarlBaron 2 місяці тому +5

    Countries that did these difficult things (changing driving directions, metric, etc, even things like reforming medical systems) back when they were much easier to due have been reaping the rewards ever since. These things are impossible to do now as the expenses have gone way up with the increased infrastructure to change

    • @straightpipediesel
      @straightpipediesel 2 місяці тому +2

      Not necessarily. For example, we have digital instrument clusters now so there's 0 cost in switching cars between MPH and km/h. The big change in LHD/RHD will be when cars go to steer-by-wire, which one car already has (Infiniti Q60). At that point it will be possible to engineer a RHD car that can be inexpensively converted to LHD which creates a paradox: the extra engineering and production cost of RHD will decrease so that a reason to switch is removed, or it will spur a switch, as cars can be easily converted.

    • @MartintheTinman
      @MartintheTinman 2 місяці тому

      Maybe financially unviable but not impossible and stuff is only financially unviable to a Government because the greedy peanuts want all the money for themselves

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому

      Nothing is 'financially unviable' if the long-term benefits outweigh the immediate costs.
      When viewed only in 'short-term' values/ROI, even small changes are 'financially unviable'.
      Eg - no public transport system would ever be updated/expanded if ROI was viewed only in the 'short term'.

  • @ylette
    @ylette 2 місяці тому +45

    Sweden seemed so civilized back then

    • @stanleypines1026
      @stanleypines1026 2 місяці тому +16

      I wonder why 🤔

    • @bukt
      @bukt 2 місяці тому +17

      inga kulturberikare på den tiden

    • @anthonyrowland9072
      @anthonyrowland9072 2 місяці тому +21

      @@bukt Racists can fit racism anywhere...

    • @-NiEr
      @-NiEr 2 місяці тому +7

      Miljöpartiet did not exist back then...

    • @Cyan_Nightingale
      @Cyan_Nightingale 2 місяці тому +9

      ​@@anthonyrowland9072the middle eastern immigrants can go to rich Gulf Arab countries

  • @darwinqpenaflorida3797
    @darwinqpenaflorida3797 2 місяці тому

    In the Philippines, the driving side was changed from the left to the right because after the liberation of Manila, President Sergio Osmeña signed the Executive Order to switch to the right because of American Military 😊😊

  • @youp9546
    @youp9546 2 місяці тому +1

    I can't see the UK, Ireland, etc. changing because they are on islands and not connected to mainland Europe. And the English, etc. holiday in Spain, Greece, etc. so it is no big deal as many adapt quickly while on holiday.

  • @pontusfranander
    @pontusfranander 2 місяці тому +3

    "I think sååå"😄👌

  • @29brendus
    @29brendus 2 місяці тому +2

    I have driven for many years on the 'right side' but my feeling is that the left side is more correct because it is naturally clockwise. Maybe Sweden should not have bothered.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому +7

      'Naturally clockwise'?!
      Do you drive only in circles?!

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII 2 місяці тому +1

      Lol, what a joke 😂

    • @29brendus
      @29brendus 2 місяці тому

      @@trueaussie9230 Only at roundabouts.

  • @42luke93
    @42luke93 2 місяці тому +1

    Why would they have the convert the headlights for?

    • @OntarioTrafficMan
      @OntarioTrafficMan 2 місяці тому

      Headlights are designed with a dim spot on one side in the direction of oncoming traffic to avoid blinding oncoming drivers. If you switch to driving on the other side of the road then the dim spot is on the wrong side so they temporarily stuck a sticker on the left side of the light to protect oncoming drivers until they get around to replacing the headlights with new ones optimised for right side traffic.

  • @hazridge
    @hazridge 2 місяці тому +6

    Huh?? Sweden didn't switch to right hand drive. They switched FROM right hand drive to left hand drive in 1967. Right hand drive means the steering wheel is on the right side of the car, therefore driving on the left side of the road.

    • @starvictory7079
      @starvictory7079 2 місяці тому +5

      No. All cars in Sweden have always had the wheel on the left. No change needed.

    • @hazridge
      @hazridge 2 місяці тому

      @@starvictory7079 huh, weird. Still, the title is incorrect.

    • @knowledgeisgood9645
      @knowledgeisgood9645 2 місяці тому +4

      @@hazridge In Swedish it is called "right hand traffic" - no matter where the steering wheel is placed.

    • @hazridge
      @hazridge 2 місяці тому +1

      @@knowledgeisgood9645 yeah it’s the same in English

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому

      ​@@hazridge
      In what English speaking nation is the term 'right hand TRAFFIC' used to indicate the driving orientation of individual vehicles?!
      In English, 'right hand TRAFFIC' would mean the TRAFFIC on the right-hand side - eg 'when joining a motorway the right-hand traffic must merge with the left-hand traffic'.
      BTW - I have MANY years experience teaching English, especially ESOL, if you need assistance. 😉😊

  • @robhunt8682
    @robhunt8682 2 місяці тому

    such a shame they got rid of the trams. Trams are such great infrastructure

  • @ghostmantagshome-er6pb
    @ghostmantagshome-er6pb 2 місяці тому +11

    Before they got polluted.

    • @DeKevers
      @DeKevers 2 місяці тому +1

      What does that mean… 🤨

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 місяці тому +1

    His name is Lars Sköld, nothing else!

    • @29brendus
      @29brendus 2 місяці тому

      Right or Left?

  • @AuJohnM
    @AuJohnM 2 місяці тому +1

    The Irish are going to switch their cars over in a few moths time. If the six-week trial is a success then trucks and buses will move too. ;-)

  • @lg_believe333
    @lg_believe333 2 місяці тому +1

    Britain use to manufacture and sell Leyland buses to Sweden and British cars. 🇸🇪🤝🇬🇧

  • @aitorarenas1311
    @aitorarenas1311 2 місяці тому +7

    Rest in Peace Olof Palme 🌹

  • @bernardmcmahon351
    @bernardmcmahon351 2 місяці тому

    I remember when they did this,

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 місяці тому +1

    What is ITN Archive?

    • @jameslovestokyo
      @jameslovestokyo 2 місяці тому +3

      Commercial archive of Independent Television News (ITN), who produce television news under contact to various British TV channels.

    • @Twittler1
      @Twittler1 2 місяці тому +1

      @@jameslovestokyoNot for a few years they haven’t. Taken over by ITV.

  • @sebastian0107
    @sebastian0107 2 місяці тому +1

    Does anyone remember if the transition went smoothly?

    • @Hongaars1969
      @Hongaars1969 2 місяці тому +8

      @@sebastian0107 yes it did.

    • @sebastian0107
      @sebastian0107 2 місяці тому

      @@Hongaars1969 Impressive!

    • @OntarioTrafficMan
      @OntarioTrafficMan 2 місяці тому +1

      @@sebastian0107 Furthermore there was no increase in collisions during the transition period like many people predicted. There was actually a decrease in collisions immediately after conversion, probably due to people driving more carefully

    • @sebastian0107
      @sebastian0107 2 місяці тому

      @@OntarioTrafficMan Thanks! Amazing operation. Luckily not to many drunk-drivers!

  • @fjdkfdfjdf33
    @fjdkfdfjdf33 2 місяці тому +1

    too bad the trams were removed. something that has now been reversed

  • @trueaussie9230
    @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому +3

    @0:11 'the biggest problem will be I'll need to keep my mind awake and on my driving'.

  • @DiP2011
    @DiP2011 2 місяці тому +2

    In één dag een heel land omvormen van links naar rechts rijdend voor 45 miljoen pond. Those were the days. Nooit geweten dat ze daar ooit links reden b.t.w.

    • @ray076NL
      @ray076NL 2 місяці тому

      nu de hele zin in het engels en youre there.

    • @DiP2011
      @DiP2011 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ray076NL 'you're there' 😉

  • @thomaseriksen6885
    @thomaseriksen6885 2 місяці тому

    They're a funny people, wanted to keep driving on the wrong side of the road well into the 70's...

  • @GeirJohannessen-nl6us
    @GeirJohannessen-nl6us 2 місяці тому +1

    a volvo p 1800 the saint.

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому

      I think it's actually an 1800S.
      (P1800s were partly made and fully assembled in the UK. Quality deteriorated so production was relocated to be fully Swedish. The 'P' was dropped and the 'S', for Sweden, added.)
      Until recently I had a 1965 1800S.
      I'd fully restored it over 10 years.
      I miss it very much.
      Oh well. Life goes on.

  • @majorskies7091
    @majorskies7091 2 місяці тому +4

    Very sad they got rid of all the trams probably the biggest mistake like many European countries have done.

    • @starvictory7079
      @starvictory7079 2 місяці тому +3

      There are trams in Sthlm again. Not many, but a few lines.

  • @version736ha2
    @version736ha2 2 місяці тому +1

    They have other things to worry about now. Being the firearms use capital of Europe due to compassion and enrichment

  • @piyushsrivastavjaipuriasch8356
    @piyushsrivastavjaipuriasch8356 2 місяці тому +1

    Had it been right hand driving in India.All the driver's job in Europe snatched by Indian driver's.😂😂

    • @epender
      @epender 2 місяці тому +2

      Don't see how that's relevant, I have only been driving for a couple of years and driving on the opposite side of the road felt natural after 5 minutes.

  • @Burgerplayer3920
    @Burgerplayer3920 2 місяці тому +4

    Would rather live in this time of Sweden than todays unsafe multicultural Sweden.

    • @MartintheTinman
      @MartintheTinman 2 місяці тому +2

      Life has to get worse every day.
      Or you can't have "the good old days".
      Don't worry, nature's automatic mechanism for coping with change never fails

    • @Burgerplayer3920
      @Burgerplayer3920 2 місяці тому +2

      @@MartintheTinman still, my point still stands.

    • @MartintheTinman
      @MartintheTinman 2 місяці тому

      @@Burgerplayer3920 you do you

    • @rickardkarlsson2245
      @rickardkarlsson2245 2 місяці тому +1

      You can't be serious.

  • @giorgioroyaume8815
    @giorgioroyaume8815 2 місяці тому

    E pensare che la guida nacque a destra
    Se dovessi però guidare in 🇬🇧 SAREBBE UN DRAMMA
    Anche se in pratica col volante ci sono nato, avevo 18 anni quando presi la patente , e ne ho 46
    Quando vedo i 🇬🇧 qui in vacanza, ho paura al posto loro😮
    Specialmente se capitano a Napoli😅😅😅
    Lí abbiamo paura anche noi italiani del nord

  • @AKandfriends-yt2yz
    @AKandfriends-yt2yz 2 місяці тому +1

    tis whynthe Finish are such good F1 drivers.

    • @AKandfriends-yt2yz
      @AKandfriends-yt2yz 2 місяці тому

      even though Swedish,, my god. anyway. they have/had Saab and Volvo.

  • @mikkomalinen2641
    @mikkomalinen2641 2 місяці тому

    If they do this Finns will storm in!

  • @nobreshit.9694
    @nobreshit.9694 2 місяці тому +1

    Of course, Britain should have done it, but the uk is too afraid of change and rather pay the price for bad decisions than changing them

    • @MartintheTinman
      @MartintheTinman 2 місяці тому

      Like everywhere they're not afraid of changing for the worse

    • @trueaussie9230
      @trueaussie9230 2 місяці тому +1

      In times past, the vast majority of vehicles in the world were RIGHT hand drive and the vast majority of 'controlled' traffic in the world travelled on the LEFT hand side of the road.
      One need only look at the design and construction of the oldest horse-drawn carriages and coaches.
      Most people in the world are - and always have been - right handed.
      Sitting on the right-hand side of the vehicle ensures easier use of a whip.
      With right-HANDED people the right FOOT is the dominant one.
      Hence the foot operated brake is positioned on the right hand side of the carriage/coach.
      Why should the UK - or any nation - change from a logical system to a nonsensical system?
      BTW - even the earliest Fords were built right-hand drive, for the local market.

  • @piyushsrivastavjaipuriasch8356
    @piyushsrivastavjaipuriasch8356 2 місяці тому

    India can buy all left hand drive vehicles.😂😂

    • @majorskies7091
      @majorskies7091 2 місяці тому +2

      Well, that is what they did with their old buses, most were sold to left hand drive countries like Kenya and Pakistan

  • @robinsonrex1280
    @robinsonrex1280 2 місяці тому

    But why?

    • @daveshongkongchinachannel
      @daveshongkongchinachannel 2 місяці тому

      Politicians???

    • @-NiEr
      @-NiEr 2 місяці тому +2

      To many were killed - overtaking! Left hand drive cars!

    • @jameslovestokyo
      @jameslovestokyo 2 місяці тому +5

      Sweden has land borders with LHD Norway and Finland (and now a bridge connection to Denmark), and large numbers of cross-border traffic.

    • @OntarioTrafficMan
      @OntarioTrafficMan 2 місяці тому

      They literally said in the video

    • @robinsonrex1280
      @robinsonrex1280 2 місяці тому

      @@OntarioTrafficMan I missed that, thanks.

  • @USNVA11
    @USNVA11 2 місяці тому +7

    This makes sense. Everyone knows that proper motorists drive on the right hand side. Driving on the left is unrefined.

    • @rgrndu
      @rgrndu 2 місяці тому +6

      No, not everyone knows that. And refinement has nothing to do with it.

    • @ylette
      @ylette 2 місяці тому +4

      Yes! There's the right and the wrong side of the road.

    • @squirehaggard4749
      @squirehaggard4749 2 місяці тому +8

      @@rgrnduA sense of humour and the ability to recognize a joke is also seen as a form of refinement.

    • @kenwestmoreland2994
      @kenwestmoreland2994 2 місяці тому

      Better tell that to people in the US Virgin Islands - they've been American since 1917, and they still drive on the left, with left hand drive cars ua-cam.com/video/R1hjQrVy7Ec/v-deo.html

    • @automation7295
      @automation7295 2 місяці тому

      @@ylette It's funny how people call driving on the left "the wrong side" but never say the same thing about trains when leaving the end stations.

  • @oniondeluxe9942
    @oniondeluxe9942 2 місяці тому +1

    Amazing how poorly Swedes were speaking English back then, compared with today.

    • @bofomalsi4146
      @bofomalsi4146 2 місяці тому +1

      Before WW2 German was the first foreign language to learn in school. If you were born before say 1930 you probably only learned rudimentary English if at all.

  • @benvad9010
    @benvad9010 2 місяці тому

    Big bloody mess.

    • @mumblic
      @mumblic 2 місяці тому +1

      Clearly it was not !!

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut 2 місяці тому +1

      They made this reform in conjunction with other massive infrastructure projects, modernizing city centres and building lots of freeways.
      It was kind of a "now or never"-situation. Private automobile ownership had been on the rise for two decades but hadn't yet exploded. In just a few years, Sweden would become almost completely motorized.
      City streets and country roads ca be switched around by just changing over the signs (not an easy feat) but highways re built with on- and off-ramps as part of the engineering. You can't just switch those around.

    • @carlospita6442
      @carlospita6442 3 дні тому

      You’re clearly Stu…..

  • @andersmalmgren6528
    @andersmalmgren6528 2 місяці тому

    From Minister of Com. to traitor of sweden in just a few years :D