Why all the outrage over your campaign to promote left-foot braking?

Whenever you discuss left-foot braking in automatic cars, you seem to receive a volley of outraged emails. I fully support your views on left-foot braking in automatics. I have done this for many years and it gives superior car control. I switch regularly between automatics and manual gearbox vehicles and never get confused, in the same way that I always remember to use the clutch when in a manual car.

Asked on 2 November 2010 by JB, via email

Answered by Honest John
Many thanks for your support. It's difficult to understand where all the vituperation comes from. Almost all is from readers with two limbs who cannot get their heads around using both of them to operate two pedals and feel it necessary to foist their confusion and lack of coordination on everyone else. I guess a third of all drivers are completely incapable of driving an automatic two-footed (a frightening thought), but I can at least attempt to help prevent the other two thirds from running over their wives and children in driveways and car parks.
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