one foot driving (damn i am slow)

[drifting S15]

i like the puma racing shoes they madd nice

 

[69Dodge_Charger]

Originally posted by wildcard
BTW, I have big feet too, Sominon. I have trouble getting comfortable in a car sometimes because of that. I have to push the seat far back so my feet have room for hitting the pedals. I wear size 13 shoes, and I'm only 17!

I wear a size 12 and I'm only 14.

 

[DoZeRxXx]

the real reason your not supposed to drive 2 footed is because if u come to a panic your gonna slam those both in then if u let off the brake or your brake dont work then your screwed

 

[19xx]

Originally posted by DoZeRxXx
the real reason your not supposed to drive 2 footed is because if u come to a panic your gonna slam those both in then if u let off the brake or your brake dont work then your screwed

It reminds me of the Santa Monica story. Very sad.

Left foot braking is a common technique to advanced defensive driving with FFs. You press the brake AND the accel at the same time to avoid losing too much traction. It's similar to ABS, but who can tap the brake 100 times in one second?

 

[Mustang_lover]

Damn you people Are So Tall...im 19 and only 5'8...I wear a Srawny size 8...

I Can Do Clutchless Shifting WITH EVERY CAR I HAVE..In gt3...lol..man i wish they had a clutch, or add one to gt4

 

[BeN_SpeC2]

how old r u..... 10?
im jus kidding....i GUESS its KINDA understandable to just find out about one foot driving *cough cough*

 

[DoZeRxXx]

What happend at the Santa Monico crash anyways?

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by DoZeRxXx
What happend at the Santa Monico crash anyways?

That was the farmer's market accident where the old guy went through the crowd and killed ten people.

There was a theory that he panicked and hit the accelerator instead of the brake - but for two whole city blokes? I don't buy that - I mean, it appears a genuine accident, but I'd have thought after cleaning up the first set of stalls it was pretty obvious you had the wrong pedal.

I have never hit the wrong pedal in 15 years of driving. Selected plenty of wrong gears, hit wipers instead of indicators (friggin' Vectra), but I have never hit the wrong pedal - and I've usually had three to choose from.

If you claim unintended acceleration because you hit the wrong pedal, you're not fit to drive.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by vat_man
That was the farmer's market accident where the old guy went through the crowd and killed ten people.

There was a theory that he panicked and hit the accelerator instead of the brake - but for two whole city blokes? I don't buy that - I mean, it appears a genuine accident, but I'd have thought after cleaning up the first set of stalls it was pretty obvious you had the wrong pedal.

I have never hit the wrong pedal in 15 years of driving. Selected plenty of wrong gears, hit wipers instead of indicators (friggin' Vectra), but I have never hit the wrong pedal - and I've usually had three to choose from.

If you claim unintended acceleration because you hit the wrong pedal, you're not fit to drive.

Yup. That's all correct.

I drive autos two-footed. I find it's smoother because you can blend the pedals more, and create a flatter acceleration shifts, which is more comfortable for your passengers.

I've also done it in manuals with dodgy engine-idle controls. You knock the car into neutral, brake with your left foot, using the right foot to keep the engine running.

It's pretty easy to train yourself to left-foot-brake if you've a stretch of traffic-free road. It's about teaching your left foot to feel what's happening in the depression cycle. Manual car drivers are used to their left feet having feeling in the release cycle, so there's nothing intrinsically wrong with your feet, it's all about training.

Have never mastered heel-and-toe.

 

[DoZeRxXx]

I have hit the wrong pedal once, thats because i hit the side of the brake and my foot slipped off into the gas(luckily noone was in the way).

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by halfracedrift
Try and use one foot for the wheel.. Sure it might seem to be faster *and is..*

I'll have to dis-agree. I drive GT3 with both feet(MOMO GT Force),.. and I use BOTH gas and brake during approx 50% of my cornering.


PS,.... I drive wearing these (though their the 1996 editions):

 

[Famine]

Originally posted by vat_man
I have never hit the wrong pedal in 15 years of driving. Selected plenty of wrong gears, hit wipers instead of indicators (friggin' Vectra), but I have never hit the wrong pedal - and I've usually had three to choose from.

Wipers... I've been driving Ford Fiestas for 8 years (not constantly, obv) - indicators & lights on left, wipers on right. I got into my dad's MX-3, drove it down the road, went to flash someone to let them out and washed the windscreen instead... Then I got home a week later, got into the Fiesta and put the wipers on... D'oh!

 

[DoZeRxXx]

ok... there is this one really old guy in my town, he lives at an apartment. Anyways one day he comes to park and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake, and he somehow managed to drive just up to the windsheild of his car into the bottom story window. It was a front wheel drive car so he couldn't try to back out.

 

[Red Eye Racer]

 

[BreakerOhio]

I find Left foot braking very usefull for some grip racing situations on FF cars, because with a quick tap of the brakes, while you are still gasing full trottle around a corner, it helps prevent the car from understeering and will allow me to hug the corners better. Other than a FF based car, I don't use left foot braking much. It is a technique that you shouldn't overlook if you want to improve on driving FF cars.

 

[Hyperglide]

When I play my racing games (no clutch pedal), I use my left foot for the brake. In racing you have to react so much faster and I find it a pain to have to shift my right foot so much, in racing which is a painstaking game of milliseconds. Those few milliseconds you can shave off from switching your right foot from brake to gas, add's up over the course of a lap or a race. I just think it's more effiecient and comfortable for me.

IRL I use just my right foot however (I haven't been trained to drive a standard yet). No need to go uber fast to uber slow in a matter of seconds on city streets or the highway. I guess it all depends on your schooling. I was taught to drive with just my right foot. I think the reason they don't want you to left foot brake is incase your foot slips and you accidentally tap the brake (or if you get rear ended at a stop and your foot is over the gas), you can cause a major accident this way.

 

[Street Fighter]

This is Keiichi Tsuchiya (as you can see) driving the Techno Pro Spirit MR-S, one of the sweetest cars on the planet if you ask me. It is has a 2ZZ-GE Celica motor and a (5 speed I believe) manual transmission. It seems the drift king has no trouble using left foot braking, even on a winding touge course where gears go up and down like my mom's estrogen.