Assume left handed driving, right handed drivers please reverse the direction lol.
What i meant was that are you able to leave perfect spaces on the left and on the right? Or you tend to drift little more to one side e.g. 51/49 drift toward the left instead of 50/50 exactly?
I notice that experienced drivers drift to the side too. So i am curious and i have my theories for this:
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Drivers are more likely to drift just a bit toward their driver side. E.g. for left hander driving that means drifting toward the left. This is because the wing mirror is the closest to the driver, so it is easier for the eyes to follow and track.
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I’ve been to places where we have to share roads with bikes and motocycles. So a lane road is literally 2 lane: cars need to hug the left lane to create spaces on the right. So drivers from those countries are keen to drift to the left; even when they are on the highway without any motocycles.
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For left handed driving, you usually dont drift to to the right UNLESS you are on the phone or using the giant touchscreen while driving.
People forget that roads are crowned to facilitate rain runoff. Ideally the alignment will account for this, but no two roads are exactly the same so some drifting is inevitable.
Crowned and also they have grooves, and usually those grooves are shaped mostly by heavier vehicles, vans, trucks and such. Normal passenger car doesnt really fit into those so it sort of wobbles from one to another.
Also, the shape of your tires, your wheel alignment, suspension bushings and other stuff affects it as well.