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Any long haul I drive barefooted only. Has little to do with control. Simply having shoes on for 12 hrs in confined position.
I used to keep pair of crocks with me, inside, for those drives. Not to put shoes on and off every time.
But there is much better solution - FiveFingers. Or equivalent barefoot running shoe. I can keep those on indefinitely.
Also, at quick glance, appears no one who posted here drives a hybrid. Thing is, you get much better mpg having feather light control over the gas pedal. Shoes do not help at all.
Well, I have plenty of first hand and anecdotal evidence of police officers, sheriffs etc not knowing all laws, especially when it comes to motor vehicle violations :-)
I'm from NJ, but live in VA now. I can't get a clear answer whether or not its a law to drive without proof of insurance here. Which was very relevant to me a few weeks ago when my insurance company kept sending my insurance cards to my old address, and I had no "proof" of insurance (the web site wouldn't let me print them out either). Lots of lawyers and some cops say one thing, and lots of cops say another.
Sometimes "law" enforcment is wrong. The good ones will actually admit it.
In every state I've ever lived in, the insurance card is enclosed with the billing invoice for the next payment, and therefore does not constitute proof of anything. Only that they mailed you a bill. It's a Gotcha Law. The state law does not require that you show thee officer proof of insurance, you are only required to show proof that within the past six months, they sent you a bill for insurance.
Another Gotcha Law (at least in Michigan) is that if you failed or neglected to sign your name on your annual registration slip when you renewed your plates, you can (and will) be fined $250. The only defense I know of is to say you signed it in white ink, since no color was specified on the form. It would be amusing to sign it with lemon juice, and then hold a match under it to show the judge that it was properly signed, but judges are a markedly humorless bunch, especially when you show them up and prove them wrong.
Does anybody here remember when California required you to have your registration displayed in such a way that your name and address could be read from outside the car, and auto stores sold a little plastic sleeve for the registration, to wrap around your steering column?
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Not sure if it was the law or not, but everybody did (so did I) even into the 1960s, and I saw movies where detectives looked there for ID in parked cars.
I used to wear out the backs of my right shoes when I drove in shoes. For example, if black leather, the back of the shoe would scuff off the shiny black and it would be gray scruffy leather where the back of the shoe touched the carpet.
So I started slipping off the shoes for driving, to save the shoes.
Now I mostly drive barefoot when the weather is 70 degrees or warmer outside.
Does anybody here remember when California required you to have your registration displayed in such a way that your name and address could be read from outside the car, and auto stores sold a little plastic sleeve for the registration, to wrap around your steering column?
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No. It was gone by the 1980s. I never heard of this and I lived there for 18 plus years.
I know from first hand experience if you're running what you brung on NJ's Island Dragway's Street Night, you not only have to wear shoes and a helmet but you have to wear long pants.
They loaned me a greasy old pair of double-knit trousers, lol.
I know from first hand experience if you're running what you brung on NJ's Island Dragway's Street Night, you not only have to wear shoes and a helmet but you have to wear long pants.
They loaned me a greasy old pair of double-knit trousers, lol.
I do it all the time.... I where a size 15. Some cars if I am wearing boots, or bigger shoes, a clutch pedal will be in my archway of my foot.
But I love driving barefoot.
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It feels weird to me so unless the shoes killing me they stay on when I drive.
