Do you brake with your left foot?

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Do you brake with your left foot?

  • Yes, left foot.

    Votes: 63 74.1%

  • No, right foot.

    Votes: 22 25.9%
  • Total voters
    85
  • Poll closed .
Filip_Ovik

Filip_Ovik

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Filip_Ovik
This question is for all the GT fans that are using a steering wheel with pedals and as the title says; do you brake with your left foot or right?

Personally I have always braked with my right foot as I do that in real life, but in GT5 I found myself to be faster if I used my left foot for braking.
 
Much faster transition using both feet, and with practice more driving abilities as long as the pedals aren't mapped to the same analog axis, which I am not sure of with some pedal sets and GT5.

I know in real life, whenever I had to do precision reverse, like backing up a trailer, or moving a dump truck to an exact position with a spotter I always two-footed it.
 
I'm pretty sure there's already a thread for this, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, yes, I brake with my left foot.
 
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Should make a poll 👍

And yes when racing on GT5 or in some other real world "racing" environment "Odyssey's, SandRail, track day, etc" ..
But when I am just "casually" driving, whether it's on GT5 or in the real world all right foot all the time.
 
Braking with the right foot wouldn't make too much sense to me as I use the DFGT, so I have no clutch to worry about.
 
jgancherjr
Should make a poll 👍

And yes when racing on GT5 or in some other real world "racing" environment "Odyssey's, SandRail, track day, etc" ..
But when I am just "casually" driving, whether it's on GT5 or in the real world all right foot all the time.
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A poll has been made!

Thanks for the tip.
 
The option I use isn't there as I tend to alternate between right and left foot braking. When I'm racing using the paddle shift, I brake with my left foot. When I'm cruising or just messing about using the H-pattern manual, I right-foot brake and practice heel and toe shifting.
 
I use my left foot for braking and on my G27 I removed the clutch pedal and put the brake where the clutch was so now I only have a brake and accelerator and I notice my times are a lot quicker.
 
Left foot brake on GT5 because of the performance benefit

Right foot braking in real life, because people who left foot brake, double clutch, heel toe downshift, ect driving around town, are tossers
 
Left foot in game, right foot in real life. I used right foot braking for the longest time. The transition took a few days to get used to and now it feels completely natural.
 
seanneedscar
Left foot brake on GT5 because of the performance benefit

Right foot braking in real life, because people who left foot brake, double clutch, heel toe downshift, ect driving around town, are tossers
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That's rather rude. Heel and toe may not be necessary in normal driving but there is nothing wrong with left foot braking in normal driving. It's just preference.
 
seanneedscar
Left foot brake on GT5 because of the performance benefit

Right foot braking in real life, because people who left foot brake, double clutch, heel toe downshift, ect driving around town, are tossers
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Say that to Keiichi Tsuchiya and see the results..even Aryton Senna heel toe..shown in the NSX-R vid
 
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Samus
there is nothing wrong with left foot braking in normal driving. It's just preference.
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Yes there is. Its unsafe, can cause 'riding the brake' and furthermore its just unnecessary

TakumiFuji01
Say that to Keiichi Tsuchiya and see the results..even Aryton Senna heel toe..shown in the NSX-R vid
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Ayrton was racing the NSX around a race track :dunce:

Whoever that other guy is (I can only assume he is a race and/or drift driver) I'm sure in his every day life he doesnt do the things I listed.

I'm starting to suspect you misread my whole post
 
seanneedscar
Yes there is. Its unsafe, can cause 'riding the brake' and furthermore its just unnecessary



Ayrton was racing the NSX around a race track :dunce:

Whoever that other guy is (I can only assume he is a race and/or drift driver) I'm sure in his every day life he doesnt do the things I listed.

I'm starting to suspect you misread my whole post
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I could care less about misreading or ignoring your list.

Hmmm the "other guy" is actually Drift King and he actually participated in the Le Mans 24h with the Toyota GT-One (1999) and GT2 NSX (1995).

By the way, why were you born being an ignorant idiot? You get mad because no one agrees with you and than you start calling those against you "tossers"? You're such a joke.
 
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TakumiFuji01
I could care less about misreading or ignoring your list.

Hmmm the "other guy" is actually Drift King and he actually participated in the Le Mans 24h with the Toyota GT-One (1999) and GT2 NSX (1995).
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You should care more, so you don't come off as someone who cannot read properly.
 
seanneedscar
Left foot brake on GT5 because of the performance benefit

Right foot braking in real life, because people who left foot brake, double clutch, heel toe downshift, ect driving around town, are tossers
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So, let me get this straight. Just because I prefer to brake with my left foot in real life, you're calling me a tosser. Seriously, you really need to get a clue. That is the most ignorant statement I've heard in awhile. Just another one of your "my opinion is always right and everyone else is wrong" type statements. There is a reason I brake with my left foot and its not because I'm trying to set a new best time going from my house to Walmart. ;)
 
seanneedscar
You should care more, so you don't come off as someone who cannot read properly.
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Misreading a post has no correlation to not being able to read properly..

Furthermore, saying that everybody who doesn't brake with their left foot is a "tosser" is quite ignorant when equally ignorant things could be said about those who right foot brake.

Either way, it's pointless to judge somebody from the foot they use to brake.

It's simply a matter of preference.
 
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GTP_CargoRat
So, let me get this straight. Just because I prefer to brake with my left foot in real life, you're calling me a tosser.
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Well I consider someone who puts their own life + the lives of others in danger, a tosser

GTP_CargoRat
Just another one of your "my opinion is always right and everyone else is wrong" type statements.
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Isn't that what youre doing right now? Let me knock this out of the park:

GTP_CargoRat
There is a reason I brake with my left foot and its not because I'm trying to set a new best time going from my house to Walmart. ;)
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The reason is irrelevant. Among people who LFB, there is a possibility of giving the beans to the accelerator and the brake in a panic stop. For you to say you are exempt from this possibility would be:

GTP_CargoRat
the most ignorant statement I've heard in awhile.
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If you recall those Toyota accelerator Death recalls, a number of victims were grouped into the statistics. People who died because they, in a panic, nailed both pedals. It happens.

Unless you chose to forego everything you learned in drivers ed from the time you were 16 and drive with your left foot braking (which I'm relatively certain you didnt) driving around on crowded roads as the way I described, is dangerous. And to drive around dangerously, or so you have more fun, again, makes you a tosser.
 
seanneedscar
Well I consider someone who puts their own life + the lives of others in danger, a tosser



Isn't that what youre doing right now? Let me knock this out of the park:



The reason is irrelevant. Among people who LFB, there is a possibility of giving the beans to the accelerator and the brake in a panic stop. For you to say you are exempt from this possibility would be:



If you recall those Toyota accelerator Death recalls, a number of victims were grouped into the statistics. People who died because they, in a panic, nailed both pedals. It happens.

Unless you chose to forego everything you learned in drivers ed from the time you were 16 and drive with your left foot braking (which I'm relatively certain you didnt) driving around on crowded roads as the way I described, is dangerous. And to drive around dangerously, or so you have more fun, again, makes you a tosser.
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Rather than arguing with you, which is pointless, I've just reported you for name calling. (tosser) Really getting tired of seeing you call people, or refer to them, as tossers, nerds, ect just because they don't agree with you or share the same opinion as you. Please refrain yourself from calling me anymore names just because I don't share your same opinion. I don't appreciate it.
 
seanneedscar
The reason is irrelevant. Among people who LFB, there is a possibility of giving the beans to the accelerator and the brake in a panic stop. For you to say you are exempt from this possibility would be:
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And if you right foot brake, you can give it all to the gas.

I'll use left foot for my good and the good of other drivers.

Not to mention

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showt...isable-Throttle-Cut-on-Brake-Pedal-Depression

http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/112_1003_unintended_acceleration_test/viewall.html

The car can easily solve the problem of pressing double pedals.
 
Quite useful to use the left foot on the brake with a little throttle on the right at times, also staying on full throttle and a dab of left foot braking has its uses.
 

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