According a draft decree on right-handed steering wheel cars in Vietnam, only foreigners are allowed to own and drive this kind of car in Vietnam.

A group of right-handed steering wheel cars from Thailand in the central region of Vietnam.

Right-handed steering wheel cars have to meet technical and environmental standards of Vietnam.

Besides observing regulations of the Transportation Association, drivers must have driving licences and obey Vietnam’s traffic laws.

Right-handed steering wheel cars have to run on roads that allow the circulation of this type of cars, running in groups with guiding cars.

For right-handed steering wheel cars coming from countries that haven’t signed agreements on right-handed steering wheel cars with Vietnam, the diplomatic agencies of that country have to send diplomatic notes to the Vietnamese Transport Ministry to ask for permission. The Transport Ministry will consider them and answer.

Some groups of tourists using right-handed steering wheel cars, called canavan tourists, have recently came to Vietnam from Indochinese countries. Because of the lack of regulations on this type of car, travel agents and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism had to ask for the prime minister’s permission.

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