Raminator wrote:43rdRecceReg wrote:Thanks, Ram. Steering a (RHD) car with the right hand is the norm for me, and the left is reserved for Texting, Dropping CDs, the Crack Pipe, and surreptitious slurps from the hip flask... (NOT!!
)..
For this reason I prefer steering/driving controls on the right. Yep, I know you antipodeans also drive RHD on the right side..but.. it's whatever suits. I expect if you hold the wheel in the left hand, and the window's open, or top down, you can fend the Roos off with the right!
Gotta work on your driver's tan somehow, right?
EDIT: Actually having thought about it, I think my preference for left stick driving comes from PC first-person shooter controls. Left hand is movement (WASD keys) right hand is aiming (mouse), so left stick for driving and right stick for the turret seems like a natural extension of that.
Interesting. I suspect I'm from an earlier generation where the only objects that 'shot' anything, were die cast spring-loaded cannons (like the legendary 25 pounder) that fired dead matchsticks, tin plate 'shotguns' that
fired corks attached to strings, or 'spud guns'. The latter fired little round segments of potato you'd just gouged out of your mum's precious supply of spuds (even though rationing had just ended-
finally- the year before, food still was valued like gold....).
Thus I never got into the first person shooter thing, nor video games as such, though my (now adult) kids plagued me with them
That said, and with one of those bizarre examples of irony this life can provide, in recent years my son has introduced
me the the hobby of collecting and firing
real WW2 weaponry. But since even the humble spud gun, or cap gun would probably require a firearms certificate in the UK these days, I have to go to Switzerland to indulge the interest....
On the plus side.. it's a great country to visit
