Left foot Brake Driving

[FU64RY]

Who else drives with left foot for the brake and right foot on the gas? Obviously Automatic cars and trucks not stick shifts.
I have always driven this way.
Saved me on more than one occasion.
Particularly when backing.
You are NOT quicker in a emergency situation to take your right foot off the gas and apply to the brake. I don't car how fast you think you are. Millie seconds count when in a emergency situation. I hover/rest my left foot over the brake.
While backing out of my garage I have my left foot on the brake. On one occasion I thought that I had opened the garage door bay that I was in and it was the other door, As soon as I bumped the closed door I instantly put on the brake, minor damage to the door and no damage to the car. Had I needed to lift my right foot off the gas and appley the brake, I would have been half way through the garage door.
Okay beat me up.....LOL

 

[Richard Cranium]

Left foot brakers are a nuisance to be driving behind.

 

[chargervert]

My left foot is usually operating the clutch pedal.

 

[oldbee]

I like left foot also(50yrs). Power braking started it all.

 

[RTSE6PK]

So, what I read is that you don't really look before you back up, but you attempt to compensate for that by being able to brake milliseconds faster. Interesting approach.

 

[Dennis H]

Left foot brakers often brake for NO ******* REASON. Uphill, mid block, anytime anywhere.

 

[Dan64]

Someone needs tell the guys in Nascar, at the roundy rounds and drag racing not to do it.

 

[Dipstick]

Who else drives with left foot for the brake and right foot on the gas? Obviously Automatic cars and trucks not stick shifts.

Me, my entire life.

 

[ckessel]

I've used my left foot constantly since I was a kid. When you start off driving tractors, then a 42 GPW Jeep and many other types of equipment plus additional manual tranny's, it's ingrained. Even driving a/t, my left foot still gets used. TIG welding I alternate between left and right.

 

[Triplegreen500]

My left foot is also used for a clutch pedal.

If you're paying so little attention to what's going on around you that you need "every extra millisecond" to stop your car...you're doing something wrong. You should see problems - and react to them - LONG before that.

 

[Dan64]

So, what I read is that you don't really look before you back up, but you attempt to compensate for that by being able to brake milliseconds faster. Interesting approach.

Maybe you reread it instead of looking for an opportunity to be snarky. First post in and you're a smart ***, it took me at least 3 or 4.

 

[Coelacanth]

I can drive either way, equally comfortable both ways. Of course, I was taught to drive with right foot braking, but doing brake-stands at stop lights with the GN to build boost before launch, adapted me to left-foot braking. (They don't teach that in driving school, for some reason...) No, I'm not a brake-rider with the brake lights on constantly, even while accelerating...that annoys the sh!t out of me, too.

I personally feel my reaction time with left-foot braking is better, also because of years of doing brake-stands and needing quick reaction times for the best stoplight launches.

 

[6PKRTSE]

I have always done this in my old musclecars since in the 80's in high school and still do it today while just driving my old musclecars.
I think it started off from driving old p.o s. cars as a kid and always ready to bump it up in neutral to keep it running if it didn't want to run right, and also ready for any foot braking extra curricular activities from light to light.... I don't drive my trucks or any newer automatic vehicles two footed though, and obviously manual transmission vehicles require the left clutch foot.

 

[cr8crshr - Bill]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Me??? Never do I use my left for breaking other than for brake torquing, and if I were still road racing, I would just use my right heel and toe, while the left worked the clutch when down shifting, say going into a turn. Personally, I think that riding the brake pedal with one's left foot leads to abnormal wear and tear on the brakes. You can usually spot a brake rider as their brake lights are always on, even at a speed limit of 65...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[68BabyBlue]

Before I put hand controls in my GTX, I used my right foot for gas and brake for the first leg of my annual trip to Carlisle. After my right leg started spasming, I'd use the left for both functions. Hand control converts gas to counter clockwise rotation, and brake to straight push.

 

[chargervert]

Two words.....Line lock.....nuff said !

 

[mmissile]

God gave me two feet. I use both, or my left foot gets bored.

 

[Coelacanth]

Personally, I think that riding the brake pedal with one's left foot leads to abnormal wear and tear on the brakes. You can usually spot a brake rider as their brake lights are always on, even at a speed limit of 65.

True, but not everyone who does left-foot braking automatically rides their brakes. Only the buffoons do.

 

[Kern Dog]

None of you guys ever drove a car without a choke that runs rough when cold?

 

[cr8crshr - Bill]

None of you guys ever drove a car without a choke that runs rough when cold?

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What??? I grew up driving vehicles with a manual choke, 3 on the tree, Armstrong non-power steering, and manual brakes. Now tell me again how I never drove a car with a manual choke!!! cr8crshr/Bill