The same language with different words / those shirts / euthanasia

[Carol]

Geoff wrote:
> The nearside lanes. In other words, in the UK, the left hand lane of
a three lane road or dual carriageway; the right hand side in
countries who, just to be different <g>, drive on the right.

Carol:
Now I'm confused, because I could have sworn that in the U.S., where
we drive on the right-hand side of the road, the "inside lane" would
be the one nearest to facing traffic, IOW, the left-hand lane, and
farthest from the shoulder or sidewalk, which abuts the right-hand
lane (or, sometimes, the right-turn lane).

In any case, I've always felt sure that young drivers would find it
less confusing for the right (right-hand) side to be the right
(correct) side and the left side to be wrong than for left to be right
and right to be wrong. Right?

Carol, noting that the western U.S., at least, doesn't have any
"carriageways" that I know of, only "highways" (borrowed, I think from
British English) and "freeways" (as opposed to toll roads, which are,
I think, mostly an Eastern phenomenon)