How many of you Auto Drivers drive with two feet?

chops

broke my right foot last year. was forced to drive an auto for a few months with my left foot only while the right healed. i am ambidextrous with my hands already, now with my feet!

TheW3r3W0lf

I have both auto and manual vehicles and for me only my right foot touches the brake. I have on occasion when driving the manual for a few days had the desire to push the clutch in on the auto which if I were not to catch myself would result in whiplash! Anyhow, in reading some of the posts about emergency situations I personally take my foot off the gas and hover over the brake, have my left foot hover over the clutch, and just coast by situations. I tend to do this when I pass through very busy intersections and when the far left lane on the highway suddenly slows and I am in the HOV lane. In Phoenix a green light is a green light, a yellow is a high speed green light and red is just a suggestion. The HOV lane is there to use by the worst of drivers weaving in and out of traffic. Hovering over the brake has saved my tail more than once both in intersections and in the HOV lane. Using my left foot on the brake sounds like an adventure for another day..

Jordo!

There are some situations where left foot braking comes in hand...

Left Foot Braking - Rules Are Made to Be Broken - autoevolution

But for day-to-day driving, it's an uncommon/unusual action at best.

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Haboob

I've tried it and cannot do it. I cannot be smooth on the brakes with my left foot.

I have a life-long dream (and process) of teaching myself to be ambidextrous, but I don't think I'm going to master the left-foot braking (unless I'm in a kart of course, then I have no problem!).

nepali

You all suck...I drive my manual with my right foot only.

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houkouonchi

Heh.. I thought about (as a joke) putting an option for driving with one foot on a manual transmission =). I can do it except starting out in first... that would be really hard to do (although not impossible) with one foot. Starting would be very slow though.

CDepp

When my CSC went out in my Integra GS-R, I could actually get the RPMs low enough to get into first and skip back up to speed. The technique, while sounding crazy, would be to come to stop in neutral (else the car would stall) and rev it up to about 4K, and on the down-choke, I would dump the AC to high. I could get it down to about 400RPM and grind it into 1st with a open door and a kick of the leg. In traffic, I would just force it to stall in 1st and use the starter to get it rolling.

Amazingly, I got 254,800+ miles on it before it was sold.

Only had to replace the CSC, throwout bearing, and starter once.

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nogoodname

Couldn't select more than one but I went with option 2 for auto driving.

CDepp

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Hotrodz

My brother got me left foot braking while playing Forza. It took a little practice, but it's not that difficult. I have even done it in my Nismo. The trick is to down shift early otherwise you are totally FUBAR. Yep and if I panic its not pretty. I think if I didn't have to pay for my car, tires and brakes....well I'd be a real race car driver and left foot brake all the time!

I don't see anything wrong with it it's no kind of like heal toeing in a MT. All three pedals being used at once. I'm thinking, if you can't left foot break don't try heal toeing!! Just saying!

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CDepp

I believe you are mistaken. Toe and heel is nothing like left foot braking. Toe and heel is all right foot on both the brake and accelerator, left on the clutch. It's a method of double declutch shifting while using all three pedals at once.

Luckily, you have a Nismo that already accomplishes what toe and heel works to perform: 'blipping' the accelerator while decreasing speed to downshift and match the speed to your gear for coming our of a corner.

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Hotrodz

I not saying its totally the same, but the whole deal is about coordination and control. The design or placement of the pedal are done because most people are right handed and have little or no coordination with their left hand or foot. It all goes back to left handed equals sinister or wrong! However, if you grow up knowing only how to left foot brake you would not know that it was "wrong."

So if you can't dribble a basket ball with your left hand, switch hit or are otherwise ambidextrous it probably not a smart move. I played college baseball with a guy that pitched both games in double header, one right handed and the other left and won both of them to get his team to the 5A CIF championship So Cal. I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

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CDepp

Well, then left foot braking is like juggling and eating with chopsticks?



Guess my beef is with the "if you can't left-foot brake, don't try toe and heeling!!!" part really.
The usage is nothing the same. Toe and heel is completely slowing the car without any acceleration going on, only rev-matching the engine for a lower gear with the clutch disengaged. As long as the clutch pedal is on the floor, there is no chance of both the car trying to go forward and stop simultaneously where left foot braking can leave a person.

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JARblue

I can dribble and shoot a basketball quite competently considering I am right handed and generally not ambidextrous. However, I got that way with lots of practice. I have not practiced left foot braking much at all, and in my experience I am awful at it. I'm sure there are people that are just naturally ambidextrous at most activities, but I'm not talking about them. Generally speaking, being good at one ambidextrous thing does not make one good at multiple ambidextrous things.

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Haboob

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