Toecutter
What would DoG do?
Well, sorta, but more in a seven-degrees-of-separation kind of way.
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Scab
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Gunny!
I don't have one of those. The wife does, but I don't. Besides, I thought you meant All-Terain vehicle, as in my Jeep.
tcfjr
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wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
In an automatic, your left foot has nothing to do but brace against the floor for the twisties. (Cages do twisties, too, y'know!)
If you autocross or road race a turbocharged car, you might ride the brake with the left while holding throttle with the right, to keep the hair dryer spinning (boost up). No point in such in street driving.
If you autocross or road race a turbocharged car, you might ride the brake with the left while holding throttle with the right, to keep the hair dryer spinning (boost up). No point in such in street driving.
My first car was a 1970 Fastback, sold it just before I got my license at 15.5 years old. Took the driving test in dad's 1971 vw autostick superbeetle. You should have seen the DMV guys face when I shifted gears without a clutch pedal. I had to explain to him it had a microswitch in the shifter that opperated a large vacuum servo pushing the clutch arm at the transmission.
Must have been an early prototype of the FJR1300AE. :lol:
dcarver
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Unless of course my right femur is broken and I need to drive with the left...
Badcat
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The highschool I went to was so small they taught drivers ed and *** ed in the same car.
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Why would you NOT use your right foot when the left is busy with the clutch?
as for the "when driving an A/T/ vehicle", who would do that? you lose so much power to the slush box that it's nutty.
as for the "when driving an A/T/ vehicle", who would do that? you lose so much power to the slush box that it's nutty.
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zorkler
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what the hell is the difference and i use my left foot and i am left handed
weekend rider
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Who uses brakes and use seven and one than switch to eleven and five
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.paul
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Gets rid of that awkward conversation you make when you're not driving....or wait, maybe not
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Also a left footer, unless driving a manual transmission.
I was taught right foot braking, just as everyone else was taught in high school driver's ed, where the left foot braking technique would just confuse the students and take its toll on the equipment, besides which it doesn't work for manual shift cars.
Found out about left foot braking a bit later, after the state of Florida insisted that I take additional driver's education.
It reduces braking response time, and is a superior driving technique.
Toecutter
What would DoG do?
Especially when I'm doing extreme tailgating, to encourage those numbheads in the #1 lane that aren't even doing the speed limit, to move on over. The bull bar in their mirror also helps. Many get a dose of courtesy when they wake up and notice.
Sadly, the fire engine has both pedals to the right of the steering column, which doesn't allow comfortable left-foot braking. I can only do it when I absolutely have to (crawling through fields with the mobile pump in gear, to feather the throttle and keep water pressure up while dragging the brakes so as not to run away from a walking firefighter on the hose line).
Amazing a state-accredited entity would be allowed to teach that....
wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
Right up to the point where the driver panics about something and mashes BOTH pedals. Also, those whose left foot "hovers" over the brake pedal are usually actually resting it on the brake pedal (however lightly) which enages the brake lights. You know these people - the ones whose brake lights never go out, even when miving out from a red light, or the lights flash on and off all day at random intervals as the foot taps the pedal it's resting on.
Left foot braking is wrong, simply because most people can't do it. OTOH most people can't drive, so what difference does it make?
odot
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Geez....I read this? .....and voted left? I'm goin to start my own poll on what hand one person used when "servicing" oneself. For the record.....I use the right................
gr8eyes
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I have someone do that for me.
