If your brain is so confused, then don't. In the Toyota cases the fact that the drivers pressed the accelerator instead of the brake is because they thought they were pressing the brake. This happened to a man called William Hippsley in the UK in 2009 and resulted in the death of his wife. He tried to use the Toyota cases at his trial in March, 2010 to pretend it was the car's fault.**

I'm only interested in saving lives in 'accidents' that occur when manoeuvring automatics. Then, even if your left foot conditioning results in over-braking, it won't do any harm, but you have full control of the car and can stop it before you run over your wife or child or someone else’s, a type of 'accident' that occurs around 100 times a year. I recently confirmed with the IAM that they have no problem at all with the advice to left-foot brake automatics whole manoeuvring. They just don’t trust most drivers to prefect the technique out on the open road.

**Source Daily Mail, Thursday March 11, 2010, page 35.