Mr. Fulano: I was just messing around. If you can drive effectively like that, then go for it. I was just busting on those who CAN'T but attempt it. Now, if you tell me you use your left foot for the gas AND brakes, and your right foot to tune the radio, shift and do your email, then I'd be worried about you

 

I am a professional driver and there is a steering collum that comes down between the the right side where the barke and accellerator is located and the left side (They are all automatics except for a few semi automatic 10 speed in which you use a clutch pedle for starting and stopping) at any rate it is impossible or very uncomforatable to drive with one foot on the throtle and one on or near the brake. this is not a good practice see I am also a trainer and in an emergency where you were going to hit something stabbing the brake with your left foot and hitting something throws you forward including you right foot...right back on to the accelorator pedal...I need not to say more about that...But I can tell you this,if I see any of my drivers using the left foot on the brake they would not be working for our company...Just my 2 cents no offence intended...[X(]

 

I steer with my left knee while working the clutch at the same time, my right hand is on the stick at all times while my left hand hangs out the window giving hummer salute. Am I a bad driver?

 

"I'm an excellent driver" ~Rainman~

 

You are a stereotypical driver..

 

How do you like those autoshifts? We have both too (clutched and clutchless). IMO they are all junk. They make poor shifting decisions and never seem to be in the right gear. The clutchless ones need too high of RPM to engage so it makes backing up with finnese difficult, and they all seem to take too long to shift. They also cant seem to figure out when you are starting off loaded going down hill that they can shift higher than the next gear. Two or three higher would be better sometime. We have Freightliners with the New Mercedes engine as well, and IMO I think they are junk too. But then, we run around at 105,500 lbs all day going up and down hills/mountains and with a shorter stroke they just don't make the torque the boat anchor Detroits make.

 

Both are junk in my opinion but I would take the clutch over the non for the hills cuz you can shift them manually in hold and keep them there until you shift it. The non cluth take too long to determin what gear to go in and...ah they are just pieces of chit...[:@]

 

You can manually shift both of our, but then you are limited in the gears you can skip to, and only if the shift keeps the engine in some pretty small parameters (probably a user programmable feature) even if the shift with a full manual would keep the engine in a safe zone. One of my biggest gripes aboutboth of them is when they shift into neutral and let you coast up to a light, then the light turns green and it has to figure out what gear to go back into while you are still moving. IMO it's back to the drawing board on these. Gimme a full manual, or a full juice box auto, but this autoshifted manual crap is for the birds.

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

 

Zyne, chill....don't take things so seriously! Most of this stuff is all BS and people throw things out to have fun on forums like this. -- Regardless, I am amazed at how quickly everyone has made the assumption that driving with your left foot is a danger orjust simply down right wrong. Listen, it works for me and it has for over 30 years. Without a doubt I have an amazinglyquick response time for stopping. Why is that so difficult to accept? -- And that's also what I'm talking about when I say "stereotyping". I don't care what anyone drives with. If they drive safely and have a proven track record...hey, that's great stuff. As for instructors, listen...the first thing they teach you in any of those classes is that you need to drive with your hands at10 and 2...OK, how many people actually do that? maybe about 20% of the drivers in America. Most people are either on the phone, eating &%@# or haveonly one hand on the wheel. The next time you take a hand off the wheel to tune the radio remember...just hope you don't have an accident, because you just violated one of the rules of the road.

Chill.......and GO Bears!!!

 

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