Why we drive on the ride side of the road

Did you ever wonder why in the United States, we keep to the right but in some other countries keeping to the left is the norm? The Lawrence Locomotive newspaper offered this explanation on Dec. 24, 1904, which was reprinted from the Chicago Tribune. So read the following story and you can answer the question.

On a bridge in the city of Victoria, B.C., announced a gentleman driver, who had handled the reins in the good old days when Commodore Vanderbilt and his speedy roadsters were familiar figures upon the smooth pikes of southern New York, there were more collisions every day than upon any...