Something completely differentFollow

Are you on crack? Seriously. Get your fucking head scanned.

Actually, I take that back. This is how you've always been, so you're probably fine. If you did suddenly develop any sense, it'd probably indicate a brain tumor.


You apparently doubt that your wrongness can be quantifiable...in a thread in which YOU POSTED A POLL WHICH ITSELF QUANTIFIES YOUR WRONGNESS.



Edited, Jul 28th 2012 12:18am by trickybeck

Personally, driving a manual really all depends on what type of vehicle you're driving. My '94 Nissan Skyline GTS-t pushing 500hp or my new project car (CPV35 with vortech supercharger kit for 400hp) is a blast to drive in traffic or not.

The 4-ton work truck...not so much.

Anyone driving an A/T with 2 feet should be shot*. (Random forum percentage number) of people that do that crap are riding their brakes, and us poor slobs behind them have no friggin' clue why the hell they're braking or when they're actually going to brake harder. Said group also tends to forget about using their turn indicators too.

*Unless your drifting, but then we wouldn't be having this discussion other than "E-braking is not drifting"

False. Had it on my 5 speed 1991 Totota wagon. I might have had it on my 1979 Datsun B210FU wagon, but that was long ago and I can't be 100% sure on that.

Oops. There must be some explanation as to why I missed that.

I have no idea what you are talking about. In the future, I'd appreciate you not jumping to any crazy conclusions.

Let me introduce you to someone you should meet


Quantifiable evidence would be statistics showing that people who drive automatics with two feet have a higher accident rate than those who don't. Or that their average brake life is shorter. Hell. It would be nearly anything other than just pointing to the number of people who think it's more dangerous or inefficient or wrong. What I find fascinating about this subject is that most people feel very very strongly that driving an automatic with two feet is wrong, dangerous, etc, yet other than pointing at all the other people who believe the same as they do, they can't produce any real evidence to support this. It's not a subject I would expect people to be so emotional about, yet comments like "people who do that should be shot" are pretty common whenever the subject is brought up.


There are dozens of studies about the number of accidents caused by pressing the wrong pedal or having a foot slip onto the wrong pedal. All problems directly applicable to using the same foot to operate both pedals. Yet, despite the nearly universal assumption that using two feet is wrong, I'm not aware of a single study actually examining that question. So why the automatic assumption that it's wrong? Seems kinda circular to me.

Wait, people actually do that? Drive an auto with two feet? I learned on a manual, still drive them on occasion and I've never used my left foot in an auto, unless I'm doing something weird (like moving my right foot for some reason).

gbaji, your reasoning is idiotic. Even in a manual your right foot still handles both the gas and brake. The left foot can and should be left idle. It would be totally bizarre to use your left for the brake.

Or, what PF just said.

I learned to drive on a 5 speed Z24. The difference in how you maneuver your feet between manual and automatic is clutch operation and nothing but. The idea that there is some kind of link between driving manual and using your left foot for the brake is ludicrous. It would take some serious muscle memory retraining to even make that work fluidly, you'd be moving your foot to the right which uses a different muscle group. For christ sakes, there's a damn platform designed to rest your left foot on in nearly every automatic vehicle built in the last 40 years specifically because you're not supposed to be using that foot during normal operation.

I learned to drive a manual tranny on a boyfriends 1966 Ford Econoline Van. It had the big-stick shifter that came up from the floor and was bitch to get into low gears.

Ok, the best part of this thread is discussing handling a manual tranny's stick. *snicker*

I miss the **** out of my manual transmission car, but not during rush hour. The first week or so I drove it to and from the city I didn't know what to do with all that free time.

I painted my nails.