True! Although I've never had it happen in anything older than a '68, so I don't know if they'd even bother.
Huh. Never had one come up on the passenger side.
Back to the original post, for the seven bucks and change that Car Nut posted, the OP should just do it right.
Going on the passenger side is the newer SOP in California. I asked a friend that is a CHP training officer. It’s due to the amount of officers that have been hit by cars when approaching on the drivers side.