Do you see driving lines on the road? (Tetris effect)

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After a lot of GT5 grinding do you start to envision driving lines on the real road, or alter your driving style? Part of my job involves driving on golf carts, so when I would come up on turns I would start to think of the correct entry into the apex etc.

My brother calls this the tetris effect (not sure if that's what it's really called) where after playing tetris for a long time you close your eyes and see falling pieces. Or when you're swimming for hours you lie down and feel like you're moving.

Am I playing too much? :scared:
 
Seeing lines, no... altering my driving style, yes. I take a back road to get to work that's a bit curvy, and rarely has any oncoming traffic. I'll use both lanes just to get the proper racing line and hit those apexes. Sometimes the cars behind me will follow my line. 👍
 
After all the years of playing GT, I've totally taken after the driving styles in the game. I imagine driving lines when I'm on a really windy road. It's so awesome!
 
i found myself left foot braking in my automatic daily driver the other day....
 
^Can anyone tell me why thats bad? As for me no because I don't have a car! :D
 
Yeah and it does my nut in when people are driving and don't do it! I also slipstream and take apex's while walking.
 
Well I guess it can't be that bad, IF you were raised to drive like that. If you were raised to use only your right foot then I guess people freak out because you're using muscle memory when using the foot, but if you drastically change to use your left foot to break you're more likely to have to think about using it, and that can come into conflict with your brain who naturally uses the right foot. May cause the two feet to collide in the middle and that would not be good for anyone!

That's just my take on it.
 
G36E
What do you mean by left foot braking
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normally done in a manual car. i drive manual due to the fact that there are very few automatics here...lol and i used to left foot brake when i started driving. i dont think i know how to drive automatic cars... i never have before
 
^^ lol.

(Back on subject) Keep in mind that the "magic line" in the game is a geometric line, one of only a few to choose from as the situation demands:
Geometric, racing, wet/snow, inner, outer, middle, avoidence.. basicly for any action you can take on the road there is an appropriate line.
 
Capt Air
Wants so bad about that?
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From the wiki:

"Critics of the technique suggest that it can cause confusion when switching to or from a vehicle with a manual transmission, and that it is difficult to achieve the necessary sensitivity to brake smoothly when one's left foot is accustomed to operating a clutch pedal."

Think about it.. do you really want someone who's come from a racing game mashing on the clutch to go out and start left foot baking? Being behind somebody mashing on the brake like it's a clutch? No thanks.
 
I find myself left foot braking in turns. Anyone who is driving behind me must wondering, how can he go that fast without making the tires squeal?
 
Tower Turn 13
Do you see driving lines on the road? (Tetris effect)
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No, but I don't see driving lines in the game, either because I don't use any aids. I do see where to put the car in terms of a proper racing line, but I don't see a red/blue (or in the case of Forza red/yellow/green) line on the road drawing me a map.
 
Method36
Seeing lines, no... altering my driving style, yes. I take a back road to get to work that's a bit curvy, and rarely has any oncoming traffic. I'll use both lanes just to get the proper racing line and hit those apexes. Sometimes the cars behind me will follow my line. 👍
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This is worse than left foot braking. I visit some curvy roads in your state and hope to never meet you on any of them. I stay in my own lane as that actually takes a little more car control. Racing lines are for the track.
 
I crashed and spun out the other day on my way to work, I realised I was going to be late for work so I just quit and restarted. :)

Seriously though, I do use the slipsteam effect on the motorway/bypass to save fuel at least.
 
I only drive automatics and have left foot braked from an early age, never had a problem.
 
I see racing lines everywhere but I don't use them unless on a track, racecraft is for race tracks.
On a public road, racing lines are not actually the fastest or safest way to take a bend as it restricts your visibility and as you should drive according to the road ahead if you can't see as far, you should be going slower.

I was taught to race by racing drivers and taught better driving practices by a Police driver (RoSPA), there's a big difference between the two and they should be kept seperate.
 
I don't see racing lines anywhere like that, but i do see the tetris blocks, OH WHY MUST THEY HAUNT ME, I CAN'T WIN!!!!!
 
I'm double clutching and leftfoot braking all the way. Not quite practical since the few hundredths gained in a corner are lost at the next redlight crossing but hey, blame PD for this :lol:
 
I left foot brake even with manual transmissions. I only use the clutch to start from a stop and I dont downshift because changing brakes is easier than changing the clutch. Powervshifting FTW!
 
Mark
I only drive automatics and have left foot braked from an early age, never had a problem.
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I tried it in my GF's Punto Grande which has stupidly sensitive brakes. Given that I had not tried it before, my left leg was not the most sensitive, i squeezed the brake a bit too much and pretty much did an emergency stop :ouch:

Might try it in my Corsa though as you need to press so hard to it feels like the bottom of my shoe is the caliper...
 

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