As a manual driver for 52 years, I am struggling to learn to left-foot brake when driving an automatic.

While your advice to use both feet may be perfectly sensible for many drivers, for someone like me, 70 years old, an owner and driver of cars - mostly manuals - for 52 of those years and therefore pretty much set in my ways, your advice is contentious to say the least. I could no more left-foot brake than fly in the air. When manoeuvring in a car park I use accelerator and handbrake, on the open road my right foot accelerates and brakes, making it impossible to do both at the same time. A handy safety feature, I would have thought.

Asked on 13 November 2010 by AG, Ellon, Aberdeenshire

Answered by Honest John
If you keep the car braked while manoeuvring then fine. But you do have two feet. And there are two pedals. So you are making life difficult for yourself by not using what you are equipped with.
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