What do we do with our left feet now?

[mollytherocker]

So the manual box is dead. Whether we like it or not. Dr porsche has closed the door and locked the building.

So, I'm thinking we need a new function for our left feet. Maybe this is an opportunity for us to control something like brake bias for example?

Any ideas?

[paolow]

This is the reason many cars now have a 'farting bracket'....

[Disco You]

If you're that bothered, just learn how to left foot brake.

[mozza42]

Main beam, washer jets? Just like the old days.

[mollytherocker]

Disco You said:

If you're that bothered, just learn how to left foot brake.

I can thank you.

[Jimbo.]

Tapping your toe/foot to a particularly good beat/your favourite song.

There's nothing to stop you doing this with your right foot, of course, but it could have implications for your car control.

[31mph]

The horn?

I'd actually love that...

[davepoth]

Brake stands?

[ohtari]

As above, left foot brake.

Besides, as long as people (like my mother) outright refuse to drive automatics, the market for manuals will remain. I'd not mourn the clutch peddle just yet

[Hoygo]

Scratch the balls.

[Baryonyx]

Disco You said:

If you're that bothered, just learn how to left foot brake.

As more and more cars follow VAG's example of cutting the throttle when the brake is depressed. Might as well brake with your right foot in those circumstances. Just another human aspect of car control being designed out to suit the mouth breathers.


OP, peruse the classifieds for good cars from the 80's and 90's, and get that left foot braking and double de-clutching.

[Republik1980]

Disco You said:

If you're that bothered, just learn how to left foot brake.

I left foot brake in the mrs' auto Yaris frequently - usually when coasting to a stop and making the frantic reflex-action stab for the sadly absent clutch pedal.

[fat freddie]

I use it work the 'hand'brake in my Merc.

[Dominicc01]

I always left foot brake in an auto. Gives more control and something for the foot to do!

[MotorcyclesFish]

I hook my left leg nonchalantly up onto the centre console, clumsily operating the selector with it. It leaves my left hand free for its natural task of eating a Kit-Kat or doing one of those powerball things.

[kambites]

One foot for the throttle and one for the brake seems to make sense.

[Fartgalen]

I still use mine with a clutch.

[Amirhussain]

Nothing

[mollytherocker]

How about a pedal that modulates damper stiffness?

Or the volume of the sports exhaust? In effect a loudness pedal!

[giblet]

fat freddie said:

I use it work the 'hand'brake in my Merc.

Same here, but on my Honda Legend. Attempting handbrake turns in the snow is a tad interesting with a foot handbrake.