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Mine was a Panhard armoured car....! Didn't realise the Variant was an electric clutch.
Left-foot braking
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I see my earlier post was truncated .
What I had typed is that I see lots of driving school cars teaching learners to trafficate right on the approach to roundabouts when going straight ahead : this is definitely wrong and contrary to what is published in Highway Code , Roadcraft and many other publications .
Driving examiners are trained to a much higher level .
Oh , I was reading up on this a little more .
Another factor I had forgotten about is Unintentional Acceleration Syndrome . This occurs when drivers who never use the left foot to control the speed of the car when manouvering accidentally press the accelerator instead of the brake , then panic and accelerate even harder . This causes countless incidents of varying severity every year , but one frightening statistic is that it causes around 120 fatalities every year - yet entirely avoidable by just learning to use your left foot to control the car while reversing or otherwise manouvering - apparently some rely only on the accelerator to control speed !!!
Another factor I had forgotten about is Unintentional Acceleration Syndrome . This occurs when drivers who never use the left foot to control the speed of the car when manouvering accidentally press the accelerator instead of the brake , then panic and accelerate even harder . This causes countless incidents of varying severity every year , but one frightening statistic is that it causes around 120 fatalities every year - yet entirely avoidable by just learning to use your left foot to control the car while reversing or otherwise manouvering - apparently some rely only on the accelerator to control speed !!!
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You're really flogging a dead horse here.
If lfb was practical, easier and safer, they'd bring it in for all driver training and exainations.
If lfb was practical, easier and safer, they'd bring it in for all driver training and exainations.
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If anyone is stupid enough to suffer from a stab of the accelerator with the right foot, I doubt very much they will have the wit the stab their left foot on the brake...
Reading up on it , it IS the taught technique for auto only in some countries .You're really flogging a dead horse here.
If lfb was practical, easier and safer, they'd bring it in for all driver training and exainations.
USA , where most drive autos is a mess - three states outlaw it and will fail candidates who do it on a test , most allow or encourage it , some require it to pass your test .
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Love the fact that a desk jockey got paid to come up with a title like that.
Round my way we give people like that a slightly different name.
Apparently 100% of instances is from right foot only drivers : because they use that foot for the brake as well .
Drivers who use one foot to go and the other to stop NEVER do that .
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absence of evidence is not proof.
More gumpf, waffle and piffle from someone who,as a class 1 police driver claimed he was taught that way, then admitted it he learnt it much earlier and was not taught it by the police or any advanced tuition. Then we learn it is not in the advanced manual...then we learn it is a test failure. And it is outlawed in some US states
Time to go for a right foot only drive...
More gumpf, waffle and piffle from someone who,as a class 1 police driver claimed he was taught that way, then admitted it he learnt it much earlier and was not taught it by the police or any advanced tuition. Then we learn it is not in the advanced manual...then we learn it is a test failure. And it is outlawed in some US states
Time to go for a right foot only drive...
Given that I never mentioned the source , you’re making assumptions there .Love the fact that a desk jockey got paid to come up with a title like that.
Round my way we give people like that a slightly different name.
UAS is a recognised phenomenon in multiple countries , and well documented .
People who control the car with left foot on the brake do not suffer from this and do not need to ‘stab’ anything because their foot is already on the pedal .
Try reading my text properly .
You never learnt things you claimed above : you imagined or misinterpreted them .
Outlawed in three out of fifty states ; required in eight and accepted in all the others .
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Most automatics , including MB have large brake pedals for this reason
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But you said in earlier posts that that isn't what you do?
You said you leave your foot to the side and move it across when needed.
So which is it?
Please give us a source for your statement that left foot braking is required in eight states.
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I haven't being following this thread but eventual succumbed to having a look at what has generated over 200 posts on left foot braking. Some drivers may be expert at it but in my view it sounds like an elitist concept that has no business being encouraged for ordinary drivers. You might as well encourage them to practice cadence braking instead of allowing the car to do it for you.
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please help us - which is correct?
is your left foot on it off the pedal????
