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I watched a Waymo try to take this on last night. It drove on the left.
London will switch sides when America goes metric - i.e. never.
> There's only one spot in London where you'll have to drive like much of the rest of the world

That makes it sound like Britain is the only place with left side traffic. 35% of the world population live in countries where they drive on the left side.

In my country, Malta, we drive on the left too, but I drive a LHD car, so everyone can tell me I'm on the wrong side somehow.
Sometimes, rarely, you find a bit asphalt in Brazil where you have to drive on the left and often it is signalled as "mão inglesa", which is something like "English flow".

Recently I discussed with some friends the relative merits of LHT and RHT, and we came to the conclusion that LFT was better because you could drive and shoot with your right hand. So LHT is great for drive-by-shootings. Curiously, no alcohol was ingested during this conversation.

Bit of a stretch... It's a dead-end private road, also sometimes called a driveway, where the owner has their own rules for how it should be used.
So near the savoy is a semi circle road https://www.google.com/maps/search/bush+house/@51.5128306,-0... which feels like a round about and and you are forced to enter it from the wrong way.

In fact driving in central london is a unique skill that I unwittingly mastered as I learnt to drive in zone one.

This means that I can out manoeuvrer a pissed off white van man in a hurry. Its like chess but more angry and slightly slower.

Not a “road” as such, but it’s also quite common in multi storey car parks as well where a ramp is shared by traffic going both up and down to stop unnecessary crossovers at each level.
There's also a part of the US where one must drive on the left: The US Virgin Islands. Driving there is more difficult than "normal" left-side driving (such as in the UK or Japan) because the cars in the USVI are standard US cars with the steering wheel on the left.