Question about Vintage Royal Car (Polish)

Wonderland

Question about https://www.daz3d.com/vintage-royal-car Is that a British car or were all steering wheels on the right side back then? Does Royal refer to actual British royalty? Love the model but confused about it.

richardandtracy

In the UK we have the steering on the right, as shown, and have driven on the left for centuries. Looks right to me.

Wonderland

I know. But most other countries have it on the left. I was wondering if that changed over time or if all cars were like that back then.

richardandtracy

In the UK driving on the left was made a requirement in 1773. In Napoleonic France it was required to drive on the [gaah NOT Left, ninny] right. Apparently ancient Rome was drive on the left..

Wonderland

What about America? Did we ever have the steering wheel on the right? That's my real question.

zombietaggerung

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/right.cfm#:~:text=With%20the%20growth%20of%20traffic,greater%20evil%20of%20the%20ditch.

PerttiA

richardandtracy said:

In the UK driving on the left was made a requirement in 1773. In Napoleonic France it was required to drive on the left. Apparently ancient Rome was drive on the left..

Maybe you should change... Sweden did it some 50 years ago in stages, first the big trucks started driving on the right and smaller cars followed suit a few weeks later 

(We finnish like to make jokes about the swedes)

FSMCDesigns

Wonderland said:

What about America? Did we ever have the steering wheel on the right? That's my real question.

Postal vehicles do, LOL

Wonderland

I did buy it before the sale ended. I suppose it could be an imported car but I wish there was an option to have the steering wheel on the left. 

richardandtracy

Scale across the longitudinal Centreline at -100% and then mirror any texture where there is writing will give the same effect - but with much more effort, I admit. Early cars didn't standardise on the pedals so mirrored ones is possible. On 3DClassic's 2CV at Renderosity I made my own RHD morph by translating the steering column and pedals as a morph. Same could be done for a LHD morph here. Again, not effort free, though.

Unseen

In the beginning of the 20th century all the cars had the steering wheels on the right whatever the country.

Her is a 1904 car (French) and the steering wheel is on the right:

 

 

GhostofMacbeth

https://idaoffice.org/posts/the-history-of-left-and-right-hand-traffic-en/#:~:text=The first model with the,rule of right-hand driving.

Wonderland

It seems all cars had steering wheels on the right until 1908. So it’s hard to know exactly what year this car was supposedly made. Since the word “Royal” is in the title, it may in fact be meant as a British or European car though since we have no royals in the U.S. 

From http://www.lostinthepond.com/2013/03/fact-american-steering-wheels-havent.html

“When mass production of American cars began in the late 19th Century, it was widely viewed that right-hand steering was the preferred method, since it had evidently worked out just fine for the journeymen of yesteryear.

However, by the turn of the century, motor companies began looking for innovative new ways to sell their latest product. Cadillac introduced the first lever-operated headlights, while the Marmon Motor Company is believed to have pioneered the use of a rear-view mirror at the 1911 Indianapolis 500. And so it was that Ford introduced left-hand steering in 1908.

Because it was later seen that left-hand steering was conducive to safer driving (since it was easier for the driver to judge his or her proximity to oncoming traffic), this new way of steering became virtually standardised by the mid-1910s (it should be noted, though, that some automobiles - such as those from the Pierce Arrow line - only converted to left-hand in the early 1920s).”