[Tagging] Driving side

[John Willis]

Here in Japan, because of the imports - mostly German or vintage - most toll plazas have a "left hand drive" spot ticket taking and toll collection.

I was so surprised to see pics of kei cars in the US. This explains it. As a driver of a kei in Japan, I certainly wouldn't drive it in California, except as a farming truck or something. Someone in 

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On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:29 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
>> You get other problems too, such as paying tolls. I was shouted at for
>> getting out of the car to pay put my card in the toll machine on The
>> Øresundsbron. French Peage staff have never had a problem with that.
> 
> This seems to be an issue for the kei car drivers here on the plains, especially since the OTA won't issue kei cars a PIKEPASS, as they're not even supposed to be on the Turnpikes to start with (though this restriction is largely ignored by both the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and tollmasters alike because these vehicles are capable of the speed and tend to be more stable at those speeds than, say, a smart forTwo, which somehow manages to avoid Oklahoma's kei class).
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