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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think you'll have to explain to most of the audience what a clutch is

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Needs to explain why they think the clutch would be so far to the right.

I'm thinking the OP doesn't understand how to drive a manual.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wider pedal in an automatic. You can catch the edge of it if you're going for the clith

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You probably shouldn't go for the clit while driving

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Or they don't know how to drive automatic and brake with their left foot. Either way, it doesn't check out

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I've done it before. Granted it was one of the first times I'd driven an auto, but the reflex to engage the clutch for rolling to a stop, combined with the extra wide brake pedal can be a real gotcha.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Eh there's also sometimes the foot e brake and sometimes when you're thinking really fast and maybe have done a few switching from car to car you might just try to start a car and move with the e brake engaged thinking it was a clutch

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of cars with automatics and manuals have slightly different brake pedal sizes for the same models (bigger on automatics usually, takes a bit of the space a clutch might). So theoretically it makes some sense.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Probably because we don't dead reckon off the position of the gas pedal, but rather, our mental shortcut is, "clutch is furthest left pedal."

As others have said, brake on automatic tends to be a wide pedal. Pedals on a smaller car or sports car tend to be small and very close together for heel and toe and whatnot.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Pedals on a smaller car or sports car tend to be small and very close together

Exactly. Nobody is making this mistake in a semi, with the throttle and brake all the way on the right and the clutch (if it exists) all the way on the left, and a huge gap in between, but a little car, and big feet? Absolutely

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've never owned an auto, only manuals. But there's been a couple times when I drove automatics for friends and family and accidently slammed my left foot into the floor or brake due to muscle memory. The pedals are close together in modern manual cars so you can heal toe, and automatic gas pedals are nearly always wider, because why wouldn't they be?

So yeah, not only do I believe op drives a manual, I bet they do it often enough that when they do drive an auto they have to consciously hold their left foot back. I know I have to. I've been using a clutch too long, my left foot just wants to go.

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