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I STEPPED OUT the revolving door of my hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, tipped the man with my bag and opened the car door, only to find the steering wheel had been moved. The Volvo V90 wagon the Swedish car maker had delivered was a right-hand-drive (RHD) model, made for the U.K. market, with the steering wheel on the right.
I looked out at Lake Geneva, where an approaching squall was drawing a veil across the water. I knew my drive to London would involve the rather low comedy of my leaping out at toll plazas like a…