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Originally Posted by anilsurya1985 Attachment 2642510
It is a Auto gear. His left leg is idle it should be on the brake pedal instead. |
The other day, I was test driving an Automatic Mahindra 3XO and I offered a piece of advice to the service advisor who bought the car to my residence.
" In an automatic car, your idle left leg is never used. Place it on the dead pedal.
Place your right leg right in front of the brake pedal.
So, technically if you simply pressed your foot straight, you will press the brake. This is your default foot position.
Left foot on the dead pedal & right foot, right in front of the brake pedal.
When you want to press the accelerator pedal (gas pedal), arch your feet to the accelerator pedal, without moving the heel of your right foot. Now your right foot heel is just in front of the brake pedal and the right foot upper section is angled and pressing the accelerator pedal.
So, when you have to brake, you just ease your foot from accelerator pedal and just press down straight, on the brake pedal.
It is instinctive, because when you panic or don't think or in a hurry, then the foot presses forward instead of sideways and you invariably press the brake pedal.
Contrasting to this, if your foot is placed in front of accelerator pedal, in panic model, you don't shift your foot over to brake pedal but simply press down which in this case will be the accelerator pedal and then boom, bam oh no!
Why use only one foot and not both feet: Well, when you are accelerating or moving you are not braking and when you are braking you are not pressing the accelerator. You only do one of these in a given time and situation and both are not done simultaneously.
So only one foot is used instead of both to avoid any confusion.
Last edited by ashkamath : 16th August 2024 at 16:26.
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