I always believed that driving on the left-hand side was safer because, a majority of the world's population is right handed. So, you want your good hand on the wheel, when you are changing the radio or using your stick-shift.
Other than for legacy reasons, right hand driving is harder than left hand. The easiest way to illustrate this is to learn to drive the stick-shift: it is easier on a left hand drive car (with your left hand on the stick-shift) rather than a right hand drive car
I don't think so, but I'm European and I've only learned to drive with manual transmission and on the right side of the street.
I even think it's the other way around: Holding the wheel is easier than changing some setting on the radio, because the latter needs "fine motor skills" whilst the first does not. It's preferable to use the hand with better "fine motor skills" - which in case of right-handed people is the right hand - for more complicated tasks.
There is kind of a leap between being right handed and that being the best hand to drive with.
When I was young, I drove a tremendous amount--pretty much 10-12 hours a day during the summer. We were wheat farmers, and the majority of that time was spent on a tractor. Because of the way that we went around the field, the right end of the plow started out next to the edge of the field. The best view of this was to sit facing the edge of the field (body turned to the right) so you can easily see ahead as well as the right edge of the plow readily. With a 32-foot plow, some degree of skill is involved in not overlapping already-plowed area (or taking out planted crop during the first round), and not leaving a gap between two rounds.
This meant that I did the bulk of the driving with my left hand, even though I am seriously right-handed.
And the result is that to this day, my left hand knows how to drive a straighter line than my right hand does.
I always believed that driving on the left-hand side was safer because, a majority of the world's population is right handed. So, you want your good hand on the wheel, when you are changing the radio or using your stick-shift.
Other than for legacy reasons, right hand driving is harder than left hand. The easiest way to illustrate this is to learn to drive the stick-shift: it is easier on a left hand drive car (with your left hand on the stick-shift) rather than a right hand drive car