Re: Left foot braking with automatics
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:24 am
I should imagine not. Stuck accelerator problems is down to rusty linings or some problem with the carpeting (and generally good reason in favor of the original carpeting) and both are easily solvable by what I listed above.
Some of the cars that were known to suffer from it even had an electronic throttle, which oftentimes disconnects the throttle entirely when you ever so much as touch the brakes. Thi also makes left foot braking and heel and toe (or both simultanously ) pointless in those cars.
If you hit both pedals (a reasonable prospect if one is using both feet and is than surprised) your brakes are most likely to "defeat" the engine torque quite quickly.
What can happen is that if you need to stop in a hurry (and this might happen even to us lot) the engine torque might elongate the stopping distance to the point of impact.
What does happen is people who confuse pedals. It's a combination of not being quite as focused on the driving task at the first minute when you just enter the car, which is reason number one behind reversing into spaces.
This is aggrevated by seating further away from the pedals so a smaller misalignment is needed at the hip to miss the right pedal, and by the change in the body position when the driver is looking through the back window rather than the mirrors. Slippery soles have also been contribute, and some kind of shoes can get momentarily caught between two pedals.
Some of the cars that were known to suffer from it even had an electronic throttle, which oftentimes disconnects the throttle entirely when you ever so much as touch the brakes. Thi also makes left foot braking and heel and toe (or both simultanously ) pointless in those cars.
If you hit both pedals (a reasonable prospect if one is using both feet and is than surprised) your brakes are most likely to "defeat" the engine torque quite quickly.
What can happen is that if you need to stop in a hurry (and this might happen even to us lot) the engine torque might elongate the stopping distance to the point of impact.
What does happen is people who confuse pedals. It's a combination of not being quite as focused on the driving task at the first minute when you just enter the car, which is reason number one behind reversing into spaces.
This is aggrevated by seating further away from the pedals so a smaller misalignment is needed at the hip to miss the right pedal, and by the change in the body position when the driver is looking through the back window rather than the mirrors. Slippery soles have also been contribute, and some kind of shoes can get momentarily caught between two pedals.