OMG You just never know!!

[deepNdirt]

I rode with a guy once who used his left foot to brake, not a pleasant drive as he seemed to be perpetually confused as to which foot to press down so the car was never at a steady speed but always speeding up or slowing down depending on which foot was winning. Had to be horrible hard on brake pads and rotors too.

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Now you have described how my wife drives and this is why I note and advise her to not use her left foot for braking, although to try and advise her of changing this habit I might as well install a brake on passenger side of her suv and have control of the brakes myself before she change this habit, I've been advising her of this for 31 years

 

[hitekcountry]

OK, we'll assume you never get confused about which foot to use. But read the rest of what I said. When you apply the brake with your left foot, where is your right foot? Still close to, or over the accelerator pedal, isn't it? And in a real emergency, when you go to maximum braking, I'll guarantee that you'll stomp that accelerator pedal, either from instinct bracing that foot on something, or from the deceleration forcing the weight of that leg and foot onto the accelerator. Apparently, I did a poor job of explaining. I never meant to imply that you would ever have your left foot on the gas, but with your left foot on the brake, your right foot will have the accelerator floorboarded.

Now of course there is the possibility that you'll never get into a real emergency and never crash . . . we hope. I just cannot understand why anyone would purposely take such a risk.

I don't believe that anyone can guarantee what everyone or anyone is going to do or not do in a real emergency.

As to deceleration forcing the weight of the leg and foot into the accelerator, that's not going to happen just from hard breaking. That's only going to come into play AFTER the car has already impacted some other object, at which point far more factors come into play such as the engine compartment becomes reconfigured including the throttle linkage.
So this is the point in time where the foot could slam on the accelerator. It should be clear that reaction can not have any thing to do with causing the accident.

Back to the OP given the scenario I described, if the woman had applied the brake with her left foot, it would be reasonable to assume that as she turned to the left it would be highly unlikely her left foot would slip off the brake and hit the gas, where as with her right foot on the brake it's easy to see her foot slipping and hitting the gas.

Why would anyone take such a risk?
We all perceive risk differently

My purpose for starting this thread was to call attention to the need be alert while walking through a parking lot. I hope that's helpful.

 

[deepNdirt]

My purpose for starting this thread was to call attention to the need be alert while walking through a parking lot. I hope that's helpful.

sorry for brining things off topic, Your right your post is about what can happen in parking lots, but is of no surprise to me that things like this happen, when folks are rushing around trying to get a parking space talking on cell phones or driving with their eyes focus 100 ft away rather then 10 ft ahead of them while there is a family attempting to cross ahead in the cross walk,
Parking lots are certainly not a place for pedestrians but everyone has to walk to and fro their cars and take chances,
and BTW I thought you pass the test

 

[hitekcountry]

BTW I thought you pass the test

Oh what a relief, I can breathe again.