It works.
/Christer, the logic guard ;o)
> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:12:24 -0400, "steven fellini"
> >Which foot do you GPL hotlappers out there break with? I guess that in the
> >'60s
> >(since they still had real clutches then) most used the right foot and
> >heel'n'toed to
> >apply break & power at the same time. But since we don't much need the
> >clutch
> >in GPL, should a beginner start learning to use left foot breaking or not?
> I drive an automatic in real life, so whenever I sit down at the
> steering wheel on my computer, my natural instinct is to use my right
> foot for both accelerating and braking. It works just fine for me.
Borut
> I drive car with manual shifting and whan i first got my T2 i put my left
> foot on the brake without even thinking to brake with the right foot. I
> would say it's much better to brake with left foot.
Randy
>> I drive car with manual shifting and whan i first got my T2 i put my left
>> foot on the brake without even thinking to brake with the right foot. I
>> would say it's much better to brake with left foot.
>Too right - there's just no way you have enough time to keep moving your
>right foot from pedal to pedal, so unless you can master the heel/toe
>technique used by real racing drivers you will find it very difficult to
>have full control of the car.
Matt
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I have split-axis pedals and brake with my left foot. This helps me to
brake as IMHO it is a lot easier. It also means it's easier to apply a
slight bit of throttle under braking if the back begins to slide out.
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but it really doesn't make sense...
drive a manual in real life, but an automatic leaves your left foot
free for braking???
steering wheel on my computer, my natural instinct is to use my right
foot for both accelerating and braking. It works just fine for me.
>Randy
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>Borut
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My driver's ed instructor taught me many, many (did I mention many?)
years ago that you NEVER want to get into the habit of left-foot
braking.
Why?
Because if you're suddenly in a panic situation, what's your first
instinct? You stiffen up, and you brace yourself -- your hands braced
against the wheel, and your feet braced against the floor (or whatever
pedal they happen to come to rest on). If you're lucky, you get the
proper foot on the brake and in addition to panicking, you also tend
to slow down. If the foot you usually stomp on the brake with also
happens to be the RIGHT foot, then that means that in addition to
stiffening up and bracing yourself and stepping on the brake, you're
also stepping OFF the throttle -- all of which helps you slow down and
possibly avoid whatever caused the panic in the first place.
On the other hand, if your normal, conditioned, learned instinct
(read: Bad habit) is to brake with your LEFT foot (again: Bad
habit), then what will probably happen is this -- your left foot will
be planted on the brake, while your right foot buries itself in the
throttle. Let's review: The left foot standing on the brake, the
right foot flooring the throttle. So, in this situation, if your
intention was to stop as quickly as possible because of some panic
situation, it seems that you're probably going to have a problem --
now, instead of executing a close call panic stop, you're either going
to sideswipe that semi that just ran the red light, or run head-on
into that taxi that's going the wrong way down a one way street, or
you're going to kill that little three-year-old child that just ran
into the street chasing its ball -- ALL BECAUSE YOU GOT INTO THE BAD,
BAD HABIT OF BRAKING WITH YOUR LEFT FOOT.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Besides -- if you let yourself learn how to drive this way, then
switching over to a manual transmission is going to be nigh
impossible; you can't use the left foot to operate the clutch and
brake at the same time.
Left-footed braking belongs on the track -- not behind the wheel of a
half-ton hunk of metal on public roads where you can kill innocent
people.
-- John Bodin
Publisher, The IRL Insider Magazine
http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/
>> Which foot do you GPL hotlappers out there break with? I guess that in
>the
>> '60s
>> (since they still had real clutches then) most used the right foot and
>> heel'n'toed to
>> apply break & power at the same time. But since we don't much need the
>> clutch
>> in GPL, should a beginner start learning to use left foot breaking or not?
-- JB
>> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:12:24 -0400, "steven fellini"
>> >Which foot do you GPL hotlappers out there break with? I guess that in the
>> >'60s
>> >(since they still had real clutches then) most used the right foot and
>> >heel'n'toed to
>> >apply break & power at the same time. But since we don't much need the
>> >clutch
>> >in GPL, should a beginner start learning to use left foot breaking or not?
>> I drive an automatic in real life, so whenever I sit down at the
>> steering wheel on my computer, my natural instinct is to use my right
>> foot for both accelerating and braking. It works just fine for me.
Randy
>> I would like to point out. Michael Schumacher RIGHT FOOT BRAKES!
>He also left-foot brakes :-)
>Matt
