The U.S. is very wrong in many ways. Still love it though (at least when bush isnt making any decisions)
The U.S. is very wrong in many ways. Still love it though (at least when bush isnt making any decisions)
i guess this would count as an automotive idiot story...
my friend hurt his leg a few days ago playing soccer, so i have been driving him around for a few days, in his car, which is a manual
today i get back into my car, which is an automatic, and as i approached the first stop sign, i felt a tugging on my right arm
i knew i wasnt still driving teh manual cause i didnt slam my foot into the stomp, but the entire day i have fealt the need to shift
~ kinda odd i thought
pondering things
Happens to me every time I drive an automatic, I keep looking for the clutch and feel the need to shift.
Yep, sounds about right.
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dads is too long so it wont fit
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Same hereOriginally Posted by Niko_Fx
Whenever I'm in the wife's car I automatically stamp my left foot on the phantom clutch before starting the car
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Did worse in about the second ever auto I'd driven.Originally Posted by byronleehk
Spent 4 hours on the freeway, off-ramp up to a junction and in mental-auto mode I pushed the clutch in to change down gear.
However *I* pressed the big pedal.
Stopped the car on it's nose, luckily no one was following
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But but... your left foot's not meant to press the brake pedal even in a manual? Shouldn't you have just been pressing on the footrest?Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine
Heres a funny story that happended to me about 3 days ago. I was driving to the rowing club near my house around 5:30am becasue i do rowing in the morning and my mom pulled onto an on ramp. We were turning fine when all of a sudden the 18 wheeler in front of us slows right down on the last part of the ramp. He stops we are wondering why becasue there didnt seem to be an apparent problem. I looked to the right side of the car and saw a hitchhiker walking towards the truck. hahahhaa. Who stops and 18 wheeler on an on-ramp and 5:30 in the morning to pick up a hitchhiker. It may not be the best automotive story but I just thought it to be ridiculous.
It is in a right hand drive car.Originally Posted by fa22_raptor
ok, fa22...
right foot = accelerator & brake
left foot = dead pedal and clutch
hehe, dad used to race porsches, i picked up a thing or two
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brake pedal on autos are much wider and will cover the are of where the clutch should be if it were a manual, its a common mistake to step on it
my friend told me about one time that he did it and almost got rearended on the highway....scaryOriginally Posted by KnifeEdge_2K1
i often kill the stomp after driving a manual
pondering things
Hahahahaha... yes, thanks for that. I'm not stupid or anything and yes, I can drive and yes, it's a manual. Maybe my wording wasn't great or something, because I understand that your left foot isn't meant to use the brake pedal. Even in an automatic car, despite the brake pedal being significantly bigger than that of a manual, it feels awkward and unnatural to use the brake with your left foot hence my initial surprise that Matra did. Whatever the case, it would really suck to press the brake accidently on an auto out of habit .Originally Posted by my porsche
Oh, and by the way h00t, in right hand drive cars, everything's the same as in a left hand drive car except the side the stick is on.
do you prehaps mean the stearing wheel...
I have the really bad habit of left foot breaking in automatics on the rare occasions i drive them....guess it keeps my left foot from doing nothing
if you mean braking with your left foot it's ok, not recomended but alot of things arnt
if you mean the technique left foot braking as in turning into a corner, floor the gas and feather the brakes the kick out the rear end then yes thats a bad habit
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