• @RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    Needs to explain why they think the clutch would be so far to the right.

    I’m thinking the OP doesn’t understand how to drive a manual.

      • credit crazy
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        21 year ago

        Eh there’s also sometimes the foot e brake and sometimes when you’re thinking really fast and maybe have done a few switching from car to car you might just try to start a car and move with the e brake engaged thinking it was a clutch

    • Baggins [he/him]
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      61 year ago

      Wider pedal in an automatic. You can catch the edge of it if you’re going for the clith

    • @Addv4@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      A lot of cars with automatics and manuals have slightly different brake pedal sizes for the same models (bigger on automatics usually, takes a bit of the space a clutch might). So theoretically it makes some sense.

    • @0ops@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      I’ve never owned an auto, only manuals. But there’s been a couple times when I drove automatics for friends and family and accidently slammed my left foot into the floor or brake due to muscle memory. The pedals are close together in modern manual cars so you can heal toe, and automatic gas pedals are nearly always wider, because why wouldn’t they be?

      So yeah, not only do I believe op drives a manual, I bet they do it often enough that when they do drive an auto they have to consciously hold their left foot back. I know I have to. I’ve been using a clutch too long, my left foot just wants to go.