Driving barefoot

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This weekend, I've been to Switzerland from Frankfurt. When I was driving there on Friday, I was wearing boatshoes (boatshoeheads, I know). On Saturday I was barefoot the whole day, as we went sailing. Thus, when I drove back to Frankfurt in the evening, I was driving barefoot. Road conditions on the autobahn allowed for spirited driving; one and one came together, and I've had 290km/h on the speedometer at some points.

I didn't think about being barefoot at that time, as it didn't feel wrong. This got me thinking however - do you have less control when driving barefoot? Anyone any bad experience?

[Bodo]

I've had to hit the brakes hard two times (as it's the nature on making progress) and it was ok - even then I didn't remember I was bare foot.

In Germany, the law states that you have to make sure, you're always in full control of your vehicle. In my opinion, driving a car with the common foot brake on flip flops means not being in full control (as the soles are almost not attached to your foot). However, barefoot feels ok - and most car's pedals have a rubber covering and no spikes. One might be a bit sensitive on the feet, if one is not used to being barefoot.

[Bodo]

fangio said:

H_Kan said:

Done it once or twice and didn't find it that comfy. I guess the only real danger is if something like a small stone getting stuck to your foot, you brake hard thus jamming stone and it causes you to instinctively pull away.

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This. It will happen one day and pop goes your insurance........

Isn't the risk of having a small stone in a shoe equally high? And what would the insurance say?