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ShelbyGirl1 · 10-24-2009, 07:45 AM

My Dad always drove with 2 feet....He taught my oldest sister to drive that way and she failed her first driving test because of it.

cmptrwlt · 10-24-2009, 08:15 AM

Two foot driver but that is because I always drive a car with a manual transmission.

sonarrat · 10-24-2009, 08:37 AM

I learned to drive on a stick-shift, so when I drive an automatic, I am a one foot driver unless I forget and tap the floorboard where the clutch should be.

Innovator831021 · 10-24-2009, 09:09 AM

Wow... I cant believe how common 2 foot driving is. Its always annoying to watch people brake as they go up hills.

dazzleman · 10-24-2009, 09:32 AM

I have the impression that 2-foot drivers are generally the type who drive at 40 mph in the left lane of the highway, with their left blinker on.

hdwell · 10-24-2009, 09:43 AM

Is this the reason I have seen the occasional "brake tapper"; that is the person who seems to be tapping the brake pedal every few feet? That just about drives me nuts. I want to break somebody's leg!

caution · 10-24-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by hdwell

Is this the reason I have seen the occasional "brake tapper"; that is the person who seems to be tapping the brake pedal every few feet? That just about drives me nuts. I want to break somebody's leg!

that is one way to tell a left foot brake right foot gas person, but it's not 100 percent. when i see one, i either drop way back or go 'round.

at first i thought this was about heel-toe shifting

Steve Bagu · 10-24-2009, 10:19 AM

In the early days of TV 1950's...saw a man on the late Art Linkletter show who talked about using the left foot on the brake and considering the speed how many secs it would take from the gas pedal to the brake pedal and how many feet were travelled during those secs.

I tried the left foot and have been using that since and I'm 78 today.

At that time taught my wife to drive in a automatic trans using the left foot brake and she flunked the test...returned 3 days later using the right foot and they passed her.

Seems a little stupid in a way not too use either foot...after all we do have two hands.

Steve

yo vanilla · 10-24-2009, 11:16 AM

I left foot brake, not all the time but sometimes.

Cisco GT · 10-24-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Fleet

I am a 2 foot driver. Always have been.

And I don't ride the brake with my left foot. How do I know? Because a set of brakes on one of my cars (back when I owned only one car) lasted 8 years, from 1980-1988.

^Really?? 8 years??? You either lived in a rural area with an average speed limit of 25mph or you barely drove the vehicle.