Drive right-hand drive in Germany
Right-hand drive cars are truly a rare sight in Germany. The rules in German road traffic are designed for normal cases, i.e. for vehicles in which the driver is on the left.
Right-hand drive in Germany - although rarely available
People drive on the left in over 60 countries around the world; the best known of these countries is of course England. So if you see a right-hand drive on Germany's roads, it doesn't necessarily have to be from England or one of the former English colonies, but could theoretically have been on Thai or Japanese roads beforehand be.
- If you want to register a right-hand drive in Germany for the first time, you will have to overcome a small hurdle at the road traffic office. You have to make sure that your headlights are adapted to the right-hand drive, otherwise you could dazzle oncoming traffic. However, this is not a major problem.
- The little everyday problems start when you drive into a parking garage. With a right-hand drive you always have to have a co-driver with you, otherwise you will not even be able to get to the parking ticket issue in Germany's multi-storey car parks.
- Of course, one solution would be to ask someone to help you, but asking strangers for favors every day is not for everyone. Especially since you would face the same problem at the exit. Quickly changing your seat in order to be able to reach the parking ticket machine could quickly become your undoing when driving in and out.
- When getting on and off at the roadside, you must pay particular attention to your respective co-drivers. They are used to always moving on the side facing away from traffic during these processes. However, when getting out of a right-hand drive, the passenger is in direct danger, as he has to be aware of the flowing traffic here, something that he otherwise does not know as a passenger in Germany.
- On roads with oncoming traffic, you as a right-hand drive driver driving alone in Germany will risk overtaking a truck or a similar type of vehicle. Because in order to be able to see the oncoming traffic, you have to cross almost the entire width of the car into the oncoming lane. It can very quickly be too late to switch back to the right lane.
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