When I was a kid my friends and I built a little wooden car to coast down hills. We used pullys, rope and a steering wheel for guidance, but we wound the ropes the wrong way on the steering wheel so that the steering was the opposite of a normal car. If you turned the steering wheel clocksise the car turned to the left.

I guess we knew that it was wrong but we didn't care, none of us drove a car. We just got used to it and it worked fine for us. It was really fun when any of our older friends tried it. Somtimes we would forget to tell them about the steering convention .