On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:37:36 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:39:54 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:27:04 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:50:47 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


"jamesgangnc" wrote
I defy anyone to drive any time at all with their left foot in the air
above the pedal. Whether they are aware of it or not, they _will_
have their foot touching the pedal.

Harry K

If you have your left foot on the brake you need to hold the foot up.
Resting the front of your foot on the brake pedal is riding the brakes
on many cars. After hours on the road you will relax those muscles.

As a practical matter, you don't hold your foot in the air, nor do you rest
in on the pedal. You keep your foot on the floor just like any other driver.
If you are in a situation where you "may" need the brakes at any time, you
can then elect to move that foot to a ready position, thus the faster
reaction time.
If you are a right-foot braker and you are in a situation where you
might need to brake at any time you take your RIGHT foot off the
accellerator, and while it is still in motion, without having to
command the LEFT foot to do anything, you hit the brakes.

Much faster reaction time, and NO CHANCE that both feet will be down
at the same time on both pedals.

Left foot braking IS dangerous - it doesn't matter how many years YOU
have gotten away with it..


how ridiculous. whatever you can do with your right foot you can do
just as quickly with your left foot. The difference is that you can
pre-position your left foot in situations where you would not be
taking your right foot off the throttle. In doing so you eliminate
about a half second of reaction time should that situation deteriorate
to where you do need to brake. There is nothing dangerous about left
foot braking, to the contrary, it's safer then right foot braking. You
sound like a hysterical old woman.


And you sound like a hot-dog driver who can't lift his right foot off
the gas and let the vehicle slow down a bit in anticipation of needing
to brake.

You, Ashton Crusher - are a DANGEROUS driver - and an accident just
waiting to happen...

And it WILL happen. Just a questiopn of when and how serious.


Yeah, If that makes you feel better. Lets go over it again.....

LFB creates GREATER safety all other things being equal. That means
if YOU did exactly what you do now in terms of when you lift your
right foot off the gas, how fast you go, how much following distance
you leave, etc, but made two changes, that you would be able to
create, at no cost, the equivalent of 3 extra car lengths of space in
front of you. Those two changes would be 1 - use your left foot to
brake instead of your right and 2 - move it into position EARLIER then
you normally would lift your right foot off the throttle by about 2 to
3 seconds.

That's it in the simplest terms. Now, please explain how my (or you)
adding 3 effective additional car lengths of following distance makes
me a dangerous driver. And don't tell me it's because my feet will
get confused, in decades of driving it has NEVER happened.