• froh42@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    The footrest is still there in a manual car. The brake pedal is smaller, the clutch in between.

    When you brake you hit the clutch with the left foot and brake with the right one on the brake pedal. Unintentionally smashing the wider brake pedal can happen if you switch from a smaller car to one with a very wide brake pedal. (Mercedes have quite wide brake pedals, for example)

    It also happened a few times to me over my. life until I got used to put my left foot very close to the seat when driving automatic, so I don’t subconsciously use it. (Just “away” from where I’d have it in a manual car)

    It typically happens if you need to do emergency braking anyways and just all the reflexes kick in. In normal situations it never happened to me.