Left is right, right is wrong and roundabouts spin backwards (hypothetical oh no :))

[flappist]

After reading about the recent switch from Right Hand Drive to Left Hand Drive in Samoa and other countries e.g Sweden in 1967 I was wondering what effect doing this would have is Australia. So on the 1st of April 2010 Comrade Kev has decreed that we will swap sides of the road and all new cars will be left hand drive including Falcons and Commodores.

There will be a transitional period of 20 years where LHD and RHD will be allowed but after that RHD cars will only be allowed under special circumstances much like LHD is now. No new or imported second hand RHD cars will be allowed.

Before the usual suspects arc up about heritage and muscle cars remember this will be 2030, XY falcons will be 60 years old and about as rare as pre WW2 cars are now and anyone can drive a LHD now that is the appropriate age.

Apart from the chaos created while the lower percentile of our driving congregation come to terms with having to remember which is their left hand (no the other left) could this be a good thing?

All of a sudden we have a HUGE export market as most of the world is LHD.
Prices will drop due to economies of scale with American, European and future Chinese imports becoming available (Shelby or ZR9 anyone?).

The japanese grey market will die instantly as they are all RHD and it will cost heaps to convert them much like the incumbent Mustang/Corvette situation.

Exports to NZ will probably not be affected as like with everything else they will copy us a couple of years later

So will this be a good, bad or indifferent thing for Australia?