People of Sweden Fear Switching to Right Hand Drive - "Dagen H" Report (1967)

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• ZE

  @zebedep · 2 years ago

  A wonderful bit of film and everyone spoke perfect English.

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• WI

  @WinterRapids · 2 years ago

  The interviewed Minister of Communications, Mr. Olof Palme later became prime minister of Sweden but was sadly murdered in 1986.

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• CG

  @CGW11 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Note that Swedish cars even before the switch had the steering wheel on the left side. That was rare for left-hand traffic. It resulted in the driver being more protected, but overtaking being quite dangerous.

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• WI

  @WinterRapids · 2 years ago

  I'm amazed by the vocabulary and proper pronunciation from many of the people in this clip. This is 1967 after all.

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• HE

  @hellion9547 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiInZNG2dhk&amp;t=58">00:58</a> no way those pedestrians could see the camera... They must have wondered why the hell this englishman was standing by the railing talking calmly out in the air by himself

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• JO

  @jourwalis-8875 · 2 years ago

  No trams was withdrawn from Göteborg! On the contrary, the tram traffic was increased.

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• LA

  @LapsangTe · 2 years ago

  For a Swede (who was just one year old when this took place) it&apos;s very interesting to watch this. The taxi driver feared that there would be an increase of the number of accidents, but it actually turned out to be the other way around. It might have had to do with the obvious fact that everyone drove more carefully the first few months, but another important factor was that most Swedish cars had their steering wheel on the left, so the cars were better adapted to driving on the right than on the left side.

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• MI

  @Mishima505 · 2 years ago

  Yet amazingly there were fewer accidents than anticipated, drivers seemed to adapt quicker than they realised.

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• LM

  @LMB222 · 2 years ago

  Czechoslovakia switched in 1939 - in very nuch different circumstances…

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• TI

  @timsvensson6530 · 2 years ago

  The most im impressed by this whole video is the Swedish people speaking so good English, for being in 1967.

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• FE

  @Felixxxxxxxxx · 2 years ago

  As a swede, i find it interesting that people tried to speak British English back in 67 and nowadays most people try to speak American English. Obviously we have an accent , but you can clearly hear that Olof Palme tries to speak British English.

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• PO

  @pontusfranander · 2 years ago

  &quot;I think sååå&quot;😄👌

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