Not kidding at all. Yes, we DRIVE on the LHS. But we SIT on the RH side of the car.
I can guarantee that in EVERY instance that I want to open the club door, I will be sat in the RH seat and will be getting into or out of it, and will find opening the club door a doddle. As I will be the one opening it, I can supervise any little ones so that they will not be getting out when it is unsafe to do so.
If the club door was on the other side of the road, most of the time I would have to walk all the way around the car to open it (unless it's an occasion where I have a FS passenger - which is less than 50% of the time).
Finally there's how I (and I suspect many others) park the car when it's in my garage. Modern cars are wider than the cars that most gaages were designed for, so it's usually a pretty tight squeeze. You can have one front door opening, or the other. Most of us park in such a way that we can open the driver's side door, and not the passenger side one. If the club door were on the passnger side, I wouldn't be able to open it while the car was garaged - which means getting into the car, driving out of the garage, getting out of the driver's seat, loading the kids on board, then getting back in and driving off. With the club door on the RHS, everyone/thing can be loaded while the car is still in the garage.
I've never understood all the whining about the club door being on the "wrong" side. It's so obviously not (and I've seen more than a few continental motoring journalists complaining that the club door is "wrong" for their LH drive cars, too). If you think that it's unsafe to let children out into the road, then don't do it - park the other way on to traffic, have them get out of the passenger side door (as they already do in my hatch), or don't park there at all. |