LVSteve
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I recall a similar video showing Michele Mouton driving the Audi Sport Quattro S1. That lady could dance.
Driving one footed or two
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I recall a similar video showing Michele Mouton driving the Audi Sport Quattro S1. That lady could dance.
duppie
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That's actually the one I was looking for but Petter ia a fellow squarehead so I posted his video.I recall a similar video showing Michele Mouton driving the Audi Sport Quattro S1. That lady could dance.
Michelle was such a fantastic driver and back in those primitive Rally cars days you really had to dance.....
My father used to drive (automatic transmission) one foot on the gas pedal, other foot on the brake.
I thought it was retarded and I told him so.
I thought it was retarded and I told him so.
carpriver
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I learned to drive on a old John Deere Tractor, then to a 4 speed stick shift on the floor Dodge Pick-up. then a push button automatic 1956 Plymouth automatic ( or as my dad use to say a hydromatic). I Drivers Ed we were taught to brake and automatic trans car with the right foot. the reasoning was in an emergency you could be pushing on the gas pedal while trying to stop. I drive with one foot.
Mickey D
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The best use of left-footed braking I ever heard of was when Jim Hall used to build and race his Chevy-powered Can-Am cars that, for a while at least, used a two-speed automatic transmission. He would prevent following drivers from going to school on him by using his left foot on the brake just as he was starting his drive out of a turn. Even the best drivers could not resist backing out when they saw his brake lights go on right in front of them. By the time they recovered, Hall would have opened up a big gap.
No, I never was privileged to share a race track with Jim Hall; I read about it on the internet, or whatever preceded it back in the late '60s.
No, I never was privileged to share a race track with Jim Hall; I read about it on the internet, or whatever preceded it back in the late '60s.
If you use two feet in an emergency stop you will probably jam the gas and the brake to the floor.
What he said.... I taught emergency evasive manuevers and pursuit driving. I found the above statement to be true in many cases.
What he said.... I taught emergency evasive manuevers and pursuit driving. I found the above statement to be true in many cases.
5-Shot
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Every vehicle I've ever owned had a clutch. Right foot was for the gas (or the foot feet as my Dad called it) and the brake, the left foot worked the clutch only. My wife's little Yaris has an automatic transmission and when I'm driving she gets a good laugh because I keep fishing around for the clutch.
My left foot gets to relax while I drive. 
I was taught that it was supposed to be done that way.
I was taught that it was supposed to be done that way.
Strictly a right footer here. I am, as I said in the other thread, amazed at all the two footed automatic transmission drivers! It never occurred to me to drive like that, so I didn't realize others did.
I wonder if, with the exception of professional racers and the like, it is a younger person thing? Maybe if one never grew up with a manual transmission, two feet feels normal?
I wonder if, with the exception of professional racers and the like, it is a younger person thing? Maybe if one never grew up with a manual transmission, two feet feels normal?
meaneyedcatz
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Depends where I'm driving but I am Pro left foot brake
Two footed drivers are a car mechanics dream. You can follow those folks all over town or for miles and miles down the highway with their brake lights on grinding away at those pads.
I was taught 2 feet with a manual trans, 1 foot for automatics. If I remember correctly, when I took my drivers test (way back when) the Mo. State instructors deducted points for 2-footed-ness.
I was taught 2 feet with a manual trans, 1 foot for automatics. If I remember correctly, when I took my drivers test (way back when) the Mo. State instructors deducted points for 2-footed-ness.
I remember reading about model T Fords. Right hand was the choke and throttle lever. Right foot was brake and reverse pedal. The left foot operated the clutch/shifter pedal and the left hand operated the spark advance and parking brake/ neutral/ shifter lever. Somewhere in there you also steered the vehicle. You were busy when driving one of those things.
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Those things were a menace.My father lost an eye working on one when he was 12 and sometime later broke a wrist starting it!
Gotta make sure the spark advance's fully retarded or it could kick back and break your wrist.
I have always used two feet when driving.
Riding the brake?? Why would you drive with your left foot resting on the brake pedal??? Now, that is dumb!!!
Riding the brake?? Why would you drive with your left foot resting on the brake pedal??? Now, that is dumb!!!
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