"SpamTrapSeeSig" wrote in message
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On many US cars that I've driven the parking brake has been a
ratchet foot pedal. 'Park' has other implications too. I don't think
you could safely use it at the lights. Even if the parking brake is
a handbrake, it's very hard to use it on the road without a clutch,
as you can't set the revs against it, etc.

I hate automatic cars, snip

Sounds like you need to learn to drive then, any fool can drive an
automatic, that's why people who take their test in an automatic are
only licensed to drive automatics...