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Do you use your left foot on the brake pedal when you drive or your right foot?

I use my right foot on both the gas and brake pedals
23 (85.2%)
I use my right foot on the gas pedal and my left foot on the brake pedal
1 (3.7%)
It depends on whether I'm driving an automatic or a standard
1 (3.7%)
I don't drive so I don't care
0 (0%)
I'm usually high on weed so I have no idea which foot I use where
2 (7.4%)

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #25 on: October 19, 2021, 11:47:41 pm »
I learned about love in the back of a Dodge. The lesson hadn't gone too far.
sounds like something out of a fairy tale.

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #26 on: October 19, 2021, 11:47:42 pm »
From a controls standpoint, you wouldn't want to tell a valve to open and close at the same time.  Likewise, you wouldn't want to accelerate and brake at the same time.  Hence, same foot for both tasks.

What about "Steering Brakes"?

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Steering brakes also known as cutting brakes, hand brakes, or turning brakes give a driver greater control over a vehicle by allowing the vehicle to turn in a much tighter turning radius by applying brakes to the inside rear wheel while using the throttle to give more power to the outside wheel. This is ideal in situations like tight canyons, sand dunes, drifting, or selective braking for rock crawlers.

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« Reply #27 on: October 19, 2021, 11:48:30 pm »
I learned about love in the back of a Dodge.

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #28 on: October 19, 2021, 11:51:07 pm »
sounds like something out of a fairy tale.
I used to take her home in my car.
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2021, 12:24:28 am »
I used to take her home in my car.
Just don't call it "Frisco".

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2021, 01:49:36 am »
5 boys.  God Bless you @Polly Ticks   ... that means eventually 5 daughter in-laws....Good Luck with that.  happy77

Thanks!  Only one so far, but she's definitely a keeper.
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2021, 02:44:33 am »
What if one has neither in one's car?
Then, typical of the Left, it gets a free ride.

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #32 on: October 22, 2021, 11:06:59 pm »
Thanks to all who voted, I can now tell my husband that ~83% of people surveyed think I'M right!   :laugh:
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #33 on: October 22, 2021, 11:22:43 pm »
I learned about love in the back of a Dodge. The lesson hadn't gone too far.
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off for the sky
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #34 on: October 22, 2021, 11:25:12 pm »
No goofy footers (Left foot on the brake), I can't teach my wife to use a manual, I love a manual.

Taught everyone in my family to drive a manual:  wife, daughter, both sons.  Currently I'm the only one still driving one regularly (a new Miata RF). 

My wife's car was bought when she was our family road warrior and drove from Kansas to Oklahoma and back about 35 times a year, so we got a Civic Hybrid for the fuel economy. It has CVT that actually works well and is reasonably fun to drive (for an automatic) unlike the ghastly Prius we test-drove.  Still use right foot for both on it.
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #35 on: October 22, 2021, 11:29:35 pm »
My granddad drove right foot gas, left foot brakes.
He never reduces pressure on the gas, just increase or release pressure on the brakes so we would constantly lurch forward or get pressed back into the seat... drove me crazy to ride with him...
He never complained about the brakes wearing out tho...

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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #36 on: October 22, 2021, 11:39:32 pm »
What if one has neither in one's car?

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Then it's to keep you from falling over when you stand up.

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« Reply #37 on: October 22, 2021, 11:42:20 pm »
My granddad drove right foot gas, left foot brakes.
He never reduces pressure on the gas, just increase or release pressure on the brakes so we would constantly lurch forward or get pressed back into the seat... drove me crazy to ride with him...
He never complained about the brakes wearing out tho...

Asbestos brake pad were the bomb!
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #38 on: October 22, 2021, 11:44:45 pm »
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off for the sky


Thankfully not in a Baldwin film.  Because the lesson didn't go that far....
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #39 on: October 23, 2021, 01:15:32 am »
Thankfully not in a Baldwin film.  Because the lesson didn't go that far....

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« Reply #40 on: October 23, 2021, 01:16:53 am »
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"taxi",written and performed by Harry Chapin.

yup
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Re: Left Foot or Right Foot on the Brake Pedal?
« Reply #41 on: October 23, 2021, 01:20:54 am »
yup

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