Jag var 13 år den soliga morgonen den 3 september 1967, jag hoppade upp på min cykel och begav mig som vanligt till skolan, hade helt glömt bort högertrafiken och blev stoppad av en polis, som vänligt påpekade att jag cyklade på fel sida :)
@affe30652 жыл бұрын
Haha, härlig historia! Undra om det skedde någon trafikolycka första dagen?
@bemseller5515 Жыл бұрын
Wow, ty
@Raimo19576 ай бұрын
Gick man i skolan på söndagar 1967?
@baronbokaj5 ай бұрын
Nej, måste ha varit på morgonen måndagen efter :) @@Raimo1957
@ETA5555 ай бұрын
@@affe3065 Om min farsa fortfarande levt kunde han berätta om när han flera veckor efter omläggningen möter en bil som kör på fel sida. En äldre förare som hade lite svårt att lägga om sin körning då han körde mestadels på landsbyggden med smala vägar så var det nog extra svårt.
@hebneh5 жыл бұрын
It was a sensible decision for Sweden to switch driving sides in 1967. Waiting longer would've just made things more difficult and expensive as the number of vehicles increased and more roads were built. Continuing to drive on the left, while in the midst of all of the rest of Europe which was already on the right, would have been foolish.
@Bregott073 жыл бұрын
I mean no, we voted against it.
@MegaEssin3 жыл бұрын
@@Bregott07 That doesn't mean the right choice was to keep driving on the left. Norway, Denmark, Finland was driving on the right. Swedish cars were sold LHD in a country driving on the left, thats not a good option. I should know, i drive a RHD vehicle on the right here in Sweden, i understand why there where so many head on collisions. People just don't like change.
@airpoelie2 жыл бұрын
Sweden is pretty isolated. Left driving should be no issue. Only the 2 roads to Norway had to adjust.
@obkb11502 жыл бұрын
I have a memory of riding with my grandfather sometime before the changeover and trying to pass a truck on a two-lane country road. Absolutely terrifying not being able to see the oncoming traffic.
@16mmDJ11 жыл бұрын
The music in this video is so calming
@ralffleitmann96177 жыл бұрын
Oh, was schöne alte Filmaufnahmen von Slussen! Ich liebe so alte Filme !
@biglostboy11 ай бұрын
schön, nur versteht dich so hier fast niemand :)
@Basih7 жыл бұрын
Bästa beslutet någonsin tagits i Sverige
@TheBrew19686 жыл бұрын
Då har man förmodligen inte tagit många bra beslut i Sverige - hur de dåliga besluten var vill man knappast veta…
@MatsElof4 жыл бұрын
@@TheBrew1968 De finns dom som tvunget ska va kärringen mot strömmen. Felet var bara att detta skulle gjorts långt innan.
@Bregott073 жыл бұрын
Sämsta* det gjorde slut på spårvagnarna och vi röstade mot högertrafik!
@SkandikFilm9 жыл бұрын
Slussen, detta gamla och komplicerade trafiksystem...säger berättarrösten anno 1967. Idag 2014 så ser det likadant ut om än med högertrafik.
@petterbirgersson44893 жыл бұрын
Men inte längre idag, 2020.
@petersullivan30129 жыл бұрын
Way too expensive to change over in The UK. Sweden was sparsely populated back then with few cars (by comparison to UK), plus they already had LHD cars so much easier. To change every sign and road marking, re set all the traffic lights and even physically chance some road junctions would be impossible with 35 million cars registered on UK roads. Even 20 years after Sweden changed there were some horrendous road junctions to contend with as they were originally designed for driving on the left.
@Bonneville6611 жыл бұрын
Almost all cars had left hand steering before the switch
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
Yes. Gibraltar is a British overseas territory, but it changed to driving on the right in 1929 because it has a land border with Spain - even the Governor's car is left hand drive. Other than that, everything else looks British. However, Hong Kong and Macau stll drive on the left, and to enter mainland China you drive through a special road that loops round. Swedish trains still drive on the left, though they switch to the right in Malmö before they go over the bridge into Denmark.
@miguellindstrom420411 жыл бұрын
Mycket intressant video. Tack för uppläggningen! Jag var 12 år gammal på dagen H och åkte med pappa från Axvall till Skara
@brianbuddy2ACP4 жыл бұрын
Can anyone provide English subtitles for what is said? I don’t speak Swedish.
@EPL7622 жыл бұрын
My svenska is limited to null. Some of the comments I can understand. The audio is still challenging.
@Bonneville6612 жыл бұрын
Compared to the left hand countries like Great Britain, New Zeeland, Australia, Japan and India, there are fewer lethal accidents in Sweden
@jourwalis-88753 жыл бұрын
Riktig gammal god speaker. Låter mer 30- tal än 60-tal. Vem läser? Göran Undén?
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
It started changing over in the 1890s, some parts changed to driving on the right, while others kept driving on the left until 1926. Apparently, rural areas drove on the right, conservative cities drove on the left, and radical ones drove on the right.
@DeLorean754 жыл бұрын
Det måste varit lite läbbigt att byta. Cykla "mot" trafiken. Tänk om man fick möte. Det måste varit en omställning för taxichaufförer att hitta kortaste och snabbaste vägen. Hade varit extraroligt, om någon kände igen sig själv eller någon annan bland de unga cyklisterna.
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
One theory is that US cars were popular, and they weren't widely available in right hand drive. In Italy, it was the other way around - years after it changed to driving on the right, cars were right hand drive.
@dadsoldtapes13 жыл бұрын
I don't speak Swedish, but can you perhaps translate what they are saying in the video?
@SirJensen199713 жыл бұрын
@DriftxKingGTR Yeah it must have been pretty complicated, especially when most cars had only rear-view mirror on the right side.
@SuperLeica13 жыл бұрын
It went quite smoothly, thanks to the 10 minutes standstill pause which was ordered before the change of sides. I was there.
@SheldonMcLinden6 жыл бұрын
I want to go to Sweden so bad!!!!!
@SuperLeica13 жыл бұрын
At 1:07 there´s a big green Volvo lorry which maybe was my father´s. Memories.
@himfromscandinavian53542 жыл бұрын
Och hur kan du veta det?
@SuperLeica12 жыл бұрын
@@himfromscandinavian5354 Det kan jag inte veta, men han hade exakt den modellen under de åren.
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
Sure, but in the late 18th century, more countries started driving on the right, as a result of the French Revolution, with many countries falling under French influence changing sides - the Benelux countries, most of Spain, as well as Denmark. Russia also changed about the same time, and when Finland passed from Sweden to Russia, it also changed over. Portugal, Italy and most of the Austro-Hungarian Empire still drove on the left.
@WVVVVVVVVVVVWWWWWWWW2 жыл бұрын
När Sverige var ett bra, tryggt och fint land 🥲
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
So why didn't the Dutch introduce it in Indonesia and Suriname? In Indonesia, trains drive on the right, like the Netherlands, but motor vehicles drive on the left!
@Retsler547 жыл бұрын
Otrolig skillnad mellan 1967 och 1980 jämfört med skillnaden tex mellan 1985 och 2015. Som om utvecklingen stannade av 1980. Enda skillnaden idag är att SUVarna tillkommit. 1967 såg nästan ut som 1945.
@SirJensen199713 жыл бұрын
@DriftxKingGTR Sweden was the only scandinavian country with lefthand traffic, none of the other countries in the area had lefthand traffic, thats why we did change to righthand traffic.
@mikjon6713 жыл бұрын
I remember the 3rd of Sept 1967 very well! It was when I was born LOL!
@Beaver68012 жыл бұрын
A great film recording the change over from left to right. At the end of the film is a brand new Leyland bus made in the UK. I guess Sweden then learned how to make their own buses!
@LMB2222 жыл бұрын
More likely Sweden had access to much better quality LHD buses. Leyland wasn't known for quality, and the UK was "Europe's sick man" back then.
@Oddop7 жыл бұрын
Vad heter låten från 1:52 till 3:51?
@1985Viggen4 жыл бұрын
Italobrothers - Stamp on the ground
@jimidrix511 жыл бұрын
hejsan mina svensk vanner. so did everyone have to switch their steering wheels, or was everyone driving with the steering wheel aligned on left side already? confused.
@riveromontara12427 жыл бұрын
Everyone was driving with the steering wheel aligned on left side already. In never the steering wheel never was on the right side.
@TheBrew19686 жыл бұрын
Not everyone drove left-hand drive cars, perhaps about 10% had the steering wheel on the correct side, plus practically all buses. My family lived there in the 1960s and we certainly had RHD cars. Driving on the left in an RHD car is so much better and not least safer.
@DriftxKingGTR13 жыл бұрын
@SirJensen1997 oh i see. but i dont get how the cars were left hand steering and still they were going on the left before they changes :S
@triton5504 жыл бұрын
Trevligt film!
@kmfw7212 жыл бұрын
True of Suriname, not of Indonesia - only a very small part was British. The Batavian Republic changed in 1795 because it was a puppet state of France. The Dutch Caribbean drives on the right, though. Sweden had a referendum on changing sides in 1955, but people voted 'no', although there was quite a high abstention.
@Captain-Nostromo4 жыл бұрын
Många fina gamla bilar, fenmercer, Opel kapitän, Opel rekord, folka snurror, Volvo Amazon och pv, Saab mm. Tyckte mig se en karmann ghia också 😎
@jourwalis-88753 жыл бұрын
Vilken fantastisk apparat!
@worldtravelimagesnet9 жыл бұрын
Interesting, this event is much talked about here in Sweden. It is natural today to drive on the right .
@viseberg85278 жыл бұрын
It's not natural, it's the fucking law.
@worldtravelimagesnet8 жыл бұрын
Haha, that's right, but it feels natural for us unless driving on the left side!
@reinhardkrau14072 ай бұрын
Vor dem Video lief bei mir gerade eine IKEA Werbung und eine Auto-Hero Werbung.
@thevikingland1234 жыл бұрын
I still want left driving since that was real Swedish. LOL
@himfromscandinavian53542 жыл бұрын
Nej tack
@Ngontih13 жыл бұрын
@mikjon67 you remember your birth that is kind off disturbing :S
@erikjansson48203 жыл бұрын
På radion spelades 'Håll dig till höger Svensson'. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bICni6etoKeMhtU
@dadsoldtapes13 жыл бұрын
@johanwinston Yeah I knew all about that... I was just looking for a precise translation of the dialogue in the vid.
@DriftxKingGTR12 жыл бұрын
Cool cool, very interesting facts you got there :)
@600322 Жыл бұрын
Speakern låter som Berndt Friberg kanske mer känd från tv-programmet Vi i Femman.
@pitacaromo11 жыл бұрын
Hur många olyckor hände den första tiden efter omställning det skulle vara intressant o veta?
@MRmagicTT5 жыл бұрын
Mycket mindre än dom räknat med har jag hört, sägaer jag, nu fem år senare...
@Cross42413 жыл бұрын
@@MRmagicTT Bättre sent än aldrig, säger jag, nu 2 år senare...
@jzc3011Ай бұрын
Elva år senare inträffade en liknande incident över havet på Okinawaöarna i Japan, ett utvecklat land i Asien. Namnet på händelsen är 730 (七三零, ナナサンマル)
@daggertom19 жыл бұрын
Wonder if the UK could hope to acheive such a feat :)
@The_Ballo9 жыл бұрын
Considering they can't make a car to save their lives, maybe they'll have to.
@granskare9 жыл бұрын
daggertom1 the UK has autos with steering position on the right side while the Swedes had left hand drive so in my opinion it was easy in Sweden but the English would have a difficult time. :)
@dementos78069 жыл бұрын
It most likely will never happen. Driving on the left is kinda their culture in a way and since everything is built around left driving, it would cost billions to change everything around.
@1.41423 жыл бұрын
Logistical nightmare
@josephmathmusic Жыл бұрын
Why didn't do the change progressively? 😜
@jackstreet6979 Жыл бұрын
No arabs!
@jesperhellsten527211 жыл бұрын
Så mycket traffik, idag är det knappt något fordon förutom kollektivtraffiken som rör sig runt Slussen...
@mikjon6713 жыл бұрын
@radonas I should remember it... I was there!!! I don't remember your birth because I wasn't there! SIMPLE!!!!
@erikmartensson80616 жыл бұрын
We need to go back
@Bregott073 жыл бұрын
JA!
@petterbirgersson44893 жыл бұрын
No.
@SuperGuldgossen Жыл бұрын
ser dåtidens nyare första mustang typ 65 66 67 års model färg vit
@noless11 жыл бұрын
Detta är intressant för det är tiden då Sverige slutade vara en demokrati eftersom en majoritet röstade nej till högertrafik ändå infördes det. Det är alltså politiker som bestämmer i Sverige inte folket. Detta betyder att även om 90% av befolkningen är emot något så kan politiker ändå inför det. Ganska tragiskt när man tänker på det.
@riveromontara12427 жыл бұрын
Nej jag tror inte att det var en tragisk dag. Vad kan man säga annat än att förnuftet har segrat?
@s_apienza5 жыл бұрын
Rivero Montara jo men vi vann på högertrafik, mindre krockar etc.
@indyfan22k11 жыл бұрын
Ireland should do this.
@Bregott073 жыл бұрын
No, DONT!
@ArchivedSwedenball3 жыл бұрын
hej
@matsrystedt45844 жыл бұрын
Min bror är född då
@emilhund4 жыл бұрын
Jag är född då
@ArchivedSwedenball3 жыл бұрын
classisk svensk
@himfromscandinavian5354 Жыл бұрын
Snart ska trögtänkta anglosaxare byta till h-trafik också :)
@DriftxKingGTR13 жыл бұрын
WHY??? left hand driving is soo much better!!
@bm7976 жыл бұрын
Not with the steering wheel on the left :D
@petterbirgersson44895 жыл бұрын
Because it made the traffic easier when crossing the borders of neighboring countries like Finland and Norway.
@Bregott073 жыл бұрын
Why? We voted against right-hand traffic. The swedish government sucks.
@tomasjesus39227 жыл бұрын
Left hand traffic is so much better! I wish my country would drive like in the uk,japan etc
@Basih7 жыл бұрын
Majority of people are right handed which then makes right hand traffic more suitable as you want your strongest hand on the shifter.
@clockwise35597 жыл бұрын
lol wut. How weak is your non-dominant hand?
@TheBrew19686 жыл бұрын
Most people are right-handed, consequently left-hand traffic is preferable because the strong hand ought to be on the steering wheel. Changing gears with the left hand is not a problem at all - millions of Brits and others do it every day!
@svenhvr6 ай бұрын
RHD is much better. LHD sucks. Steer on the right looks ugly af as well
@sdfghgtrew3 жыл бұрын
Before Islam.
@HaKim-gs2zb6 жыл бұрын
Left hand driving is better.
@kmfw7211 жыл бұрын
I said DROVE - past tense! India, Japan, Southern and Eastern Africa, most of Southeast Asia and Australasia drive on the left. They don't need that stupid Napoleonic practice.
@NikodelGlobo Жыл бұрын
¡¡¡Sos un imbécil!!!
@leltrip28037 жыл бұрын
Dålig ändring.
@s_apienza6 жыл бұрын
JO men bilarna var ju designade för att köra på höger