Drivers - Brake with right foot or left? - Page 5

BettyNewbie · ‎10-05-2015

@Elvita wrote:
Braking with your left foot is illegal.

hahahaha Big Brother isnt THAT big....YET

(edited to add...sorry for laughing...I just thought about the government putting little gopro cameras on all our feet while driving)

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@fthunt

As an elder man, I have driven race cars around much of the Midwest, many years ago, and for about 17 years. Race cars rely on horsepower and a good driver. In that era, almost all race cars required a clutch/thus a 3rd pedal.

Even when automatic transmissions came on the scene, there stole too much horsepower from race cars, thus were seldom used by drivers and race cars that were successful. I always drove conventional shift(3 speed on the column/on the floor, and also 4 and 5 speed stickshift) for my everyday driving.

One of our present vehicles is a standard shift floor mounted 5 speed transmission. I am right side physically inclined. I hold hockey sticks and shoot as a right hander/I write with my right hand, and also according reaction timing machines, my right leg are faster in reaction than my left.

I do not like using my left foot, when driving, for anything other than using the old headlight dimmer switch or a clutch pedal. I also cannot stand driving behind a 2 footed driver that has their left foot resting against the brake pedal.

Ever drive behind someone while driving "up a hill", and their brake lights on even when going skyward? What, they afraid the vehicle, under engine power, is somehow going to roll backwards up a hill?

I will stick with my quicker reflex side when driving, and after my driving for 62 accident free years, why would I change. With me, their are very, very short-to-the-point replies. That's no fun!

hckynut(john)

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

If you had a stick shift, left foot pushes in that clutch pedal. The right foot was for braking.

That's how we were taught.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

@sophiamarie wrote:
Right foot. I save my left foot for the gas pedal......

what?

just bee · ‎03-10-2010

I brake with my right foot and steer with my left.

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deedledeedeedle · ‎05-27-2014

The right, Silly, the left is for the clutch.

dee

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

Want to get more confused. Found this. Apparently used by some performance/professional drivers. Explained as left foot on clutch and right foot toe on brake and heel on gas (though it looks like more the side of right foot on the gas, guess it depends on the size of the gas pedal).

Heel_&_Toe_girl.jpg

SahmIam · ‎04-16-2010

Right foot always. I alternate between automatic and stick, so using my left foot for anything other than a clutch doesn't compute with my brain when driving.

tototwo · ‎03-09-2010

I've always driven a stick, so definitely use the right foot for the brake.

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chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

Allegheny wrote:
Want to get more confused. Found this. Apparently used by some performance/professional drivers. Explained as left foot on clutch and right foot toe on brake and heel on gas (though it looks like more the side of right foot on the gas, guess it depends on the size of the gas pedal).

Yikes! I wouldn't want to be in the car when she is driving! None of us need to have the foot on the gas AND brake at the same time! Eek!