Left foot braking

focus4fitness
focus4fitness Posts: 551 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Do you use your left foot to brake your car, or do you use your right foot to brake and accelerate?

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  • pittjenn
    pittjenn Posts: 247 Member
    Only unintentionally - my current car is the first automatic I've owned, so I still sometimes go to hit my non-existent clutch and end up braking. Oops
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    My left foot is for the clutch... like a real man.
  • El_guapo22
    El_guapo22 Posts: 902 Member
    I guess I'm not a real man. I've driven a manual. terrible I know...
  • focus4fitness
    focus4fitness Posts: 551 Member
    I guess I'm not a real man. I've driven a manual. terrible I know...

    But do you use your left foot for your brake? Or your right?
  • Expialidojess
    Expialidojess Posts: 441 Member
    My left foot is for the clutch... like a real man.

    Swoon
  • El_guapo22
    El_guapo22 Posts: 902 Member
    i use my right foot.
  • LastMinuteMama
    LastMinuteMama Posts: 590 Member
    Only unintentionally - my current car is the first automatic I've owned, so I still sometimes go to hit my non-existent clutch and end up braking. Oops

    My personal car is a manual and my work car is auto....I'm always hitting the non-existent clutch and trying to shift in the work car :blushing:

    But to answer the question....Right foot for gas and brake.
  • kiminikimkim
    kiminikimkim Posts: 746 Member
    Only once, when I was approaching a red light, the carpet wedged the gas pedal, preventing it to disengage @ 50km/hr.
    I used my left foot to step on the brakes and my right foot to kick the carpet free.

    Other than that one time, sacrilege!
  • chonji4ever
    chonji4ever Posts: 120 Member
    Definitely the right foot. Unless I'm power stalling a fine USA made rear wheel drive :)
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    My left foot is for the shifter. Right foot is for the rear brake.
  • fiveohmike
    fiveohmike Posts: 1,297 Member
    My left foot is for the shifter. Right foot is for the rear brake.

    This.
  • lelstar
    lelstar Posts: 374 Member
    Left foot is clutch only, two footed drivers give me the ****s! How can you drive along with your foot on the brake all the time?! I did do it by accident once in a friend's auto, we stopped bloody fast! Lol
  • focus4fitness
    focus4fitness Posts: 551 Member
    Thank you all! :bigsmile:
  • hyperionguy
    hyperionguy Posts: 90
    It's just plain dangerous.
    I avoid riding with people who do it.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    Most of the time...I brake and drive with my right foot.

    However, on those occasions when I sprained my ankle, I drove with my left foot. No big difference, but then again, I can write with both hands as well, so it isn't much of an adjustment.
  • LivingstonIpresume
    LivingstonIpresume Posts: 83
    Only when I'm operating a forklift or other machinery that requires being ramped up.
  • BigDaddyBRC
    BigDaddyBRC Posts: 2,395 Member
    I keep my left foot free to kick open the door in cases of road raged asshats that need to be put in their place.
  • CarolinaGirlinVA
    CarolinaGirlinVA Posts: 1,508 Member
    I keep my left foot free to kick open the door in cases of road raged asshats that need to be put in their place.

    NICE! I :heart: a hero!
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    I have a stick-shift. I brake and accelerate with my right, because if I didn't, my car would die, a lot. Clutches are kinda necessary, and since I don't have three feet, that task falls to the left. My engine thanks me for the courtesy of running smoothly.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Only unintentionally - my current car is the first automatic I've owned, so I still sometimes go to hit my non-existent clutch and end up braking. Oops

    Every time I rent a car and it's an automatic, I spend the first five miles accidentally braking the car suddenly because I go to hit the non-existent clutch. Whoever is with me always finds it hilarious.
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    I think I use my right foot. Because my left foot is busy using the clutch.
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