"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 06/04/2021 13:29, T i m wrote:


You press a pedal on the floor and the car goes faster and you press
another pedal on the floor, the car goes slower and press a third that
doesn't appear to much. ;-)


A Nissan Leaf allows one pedal to act as 'go' and 'stop' doesn't it ?.
This means you can hold the car on a slope without the handbrake.

Not sure if you put you foot under it and attempt to lift it that
the car goes backwards :-)

Having learned to drive on a car with at least two and preferably three
pedals, I would find it very difficult to get used to a single-pedal car,
where releasing the pedal completely applies the brakes. I have got too used
to no pedals meaning the car coasts and I have to make a positive action to
apply more than token air-resistance/bearing-friction levels of retardation:
having to maintain *some* pedal pressure all the time to keep the car at a
constant speed would be very tiring on the foot.


I defy most drivers to be able *reliably* to change gear without using that
pedal that "doesn't appear to [do] much" ;-) Some cars are better than
others for doing clutchless gearchanges: my 13-year old Peugeot is dead
easy, and I think it always has been fairly easy even from about 20,000
miles when I got it. But my wife's 5-year-old Honda is a lot more fussy
about getting the speed very accurately the same - it is less forgiving. I
never try a clutchless change while she's in the car ;-)

That's another "getting used to it" thing: whether reverse is top-left (left
of first) or bottom-right (right of sixth). I always have to think when I
swap between my Pug (top-left) and her Honda (bottom-right). Also the fact
that my car has always allowed me to engage reverse while the car is still
moving very slowly forwards (although obviously you can't let the clutch up
till the car has stopped), whereas Hondas and a lot of other Japanese cars
won't let you engage reverse (even with the clutch down) until the car is
stopped.