Except all infrastructure is designed for it?
Getting a ticket at the entry of a parking garage is a royal pain if you're on the wrong side of the car.
Meh, I drove a LHD car in the UK for 5 years and it really wasn't an issue at all. In car parks you just unclip your seatbelt and reach out, unless you drive some monster truck it's really not a big deal(and I used to park in a multistorey carpark every day so had the routine well practiced).
I'm not saying this is something for everyone, but it's definitely not a deal-breaker.
Also, safety? In what sense? Because of overtaking? It's really not a huge deal - you just don't overtake unless you're absolutely sure you can see what you're doing. Same as in an RHD car.
> Not in Norway any more, pretty much all of them use number plate recognition.
Also on the way in? In Austria you still need to request a ticket on the way in, but it uses number place recognition on the way out. But also you need to pay with the ticket or on the pole on the way out with contactless, which again would be on the wrong side.
Yes on the way in and on the way out. They mostly give three hours free parking so if you are there for less than that you don't have to do anything. If you exceed that you go to a ticket machine, type in your registration number and pay for the extra time before you leave. In fact my favourite one will just send you the bill in the post if you forget, but they will charge small admin fee for that (not a fine). If you remember when you get home you can pay online.
I had a colleague running a rhd Mazda Miata in an lhd country. He would just use some waste pickup tool/pliers to extend his arm and present his parking card at the garage entry or to pay the highway tolls with his credit card.
It is more annoying when you are following a slow truck on a small road and you would like to be able to overtake but can't see it easily. But most people these days aren't comfortable enough to overtake and are willing to wait indefinitely. It seems like shifting down a floor the accelerator pedal is a lost art and it doesn't help that with hybrid cars all cars become automatic. Having driven my mother in law honda automatic SUV, I could just wait a few seconds before the auto gearbox actually decide to shift down.
Parking garages in general are a nightmare in the UK. Last time I was over there I joked that you designed them for horses, because even a smallish rental SUV felt like a F-350 in there
I'm not saying this is something for everyone, but it's definitely not a deal-breaker.
Also, safety? In what sense? Because of overtaking? It's really not a huge deal - you just don't overtake unless you're absolutely sure you can see what you're doing. Same as in an RHD car.