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My car is manual, and my work car was automatic, I've done this several times
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I find this terrifying. I drove a manual for 20 years and often switched to an automatic and never did it, and can't imagine how it would even happen. The pedals aren't that close.
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I have an automatic, drove a manual for years and a few times a year I still need to drive a manual, but I've never really done this, aside from maybe a couple times the very first time I got my automatic.
What usually happens is I stall the manual once or twice forgetting to press the clutch while decelerating. Not that often anyways.
But maybe it's cause I learned on a manual, not an automatic
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Changing back to a manual I had to remind myself to press the clutch while putting the car in gear with the engine running. And not just having the brake pedal pressed. But you get used to that quite fast with the awful grinding noise.
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What happened to that statue lol
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It hit the extra wide brake pedal instead of the non-existent clutch pedal.
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How could that possibly happen? Do you left-foot-brake?
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No, you're used to pressing the clutch when you're about to brake so you reach for the left pedal with your left foot out of habit and surprise mother fucker, it's the brake pedal!
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I think you'll have to explain to most of the audience what a clutch is
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The clutch is a third pedal to the left of the brake which lets you disengage the engine and transmission so you can change the gear then let the pedal out, engaging the new gear.
With a clutch, the brake pedal is usually really narrow. So when you get into an automatic instincts will tell you to press the clutch and change gears but that pedal doesn't exist and the wide brake pedal is there instead. Instead of changing gears, you slam the brake.
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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.
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Or they don't know how to drive automatic and brake with their left foot. Either way, it doesn't check out
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Probably because we don't dead reckon off the position of the gas pedal, but rather, our mental shortcut is, "clutch is furthest left pedal."
As others have said, brake on automatic tends to be a wide pedal. Pedals on a smaller car or sports car tend to be small and very close together for heel and toe and whatnot.
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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.
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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.
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I've done this in my ambulance and nearly ate the steering wheel. All that weight DOES NOT like coming to a sudden stop
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Every once in a blue moon, I will slam my left foot into an empty space on the floor.
The brake is a right foot pedal, and I'm not sure what models others are speaking of when they say automatic brake pedals are wider. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that.
I think it's been over twenty years since I've driven a manual transmission. I wonder if I could still do it. In my younger years when such cars were still common, it was second nature, but here 'murca, it's tough to even find one if you want one anymore.
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We have both types at home and yes the brake pedal on the automatic is twice as wide as the gas one. The only way for me to prevent using my left foot is to have it on the little rest spor on the left.
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This
VS this
The brake pedal in the first picture is more than twice as wide as the accelerator, and it's only about ~50% wider in the second picture
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Well, judging fron the foot slamming, you haven't completely forgotten how to drive a manual. So I'd say you'll still be able to drive those after getting used to them for a bit.
As for the pedals, it is possible since to hit the brake with the left foot by mistake. Since not all foot wells are designed the same and in my experience the automatic brake pedals usually are quite a bit wider.
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On some cars that empty space where the clutch would be is the handbrake
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As a guy who dailys a manual and weekend woriors a automatic car from the 50s it gets even more confusing because dispute not having a clutch it does have a floor dimmer switch so I still have 3 pedals and if I screw it up at night then sorry about blinding the guy in front of me with my upgraded led headlights
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Somebody's in the !autism@lemmy.world chat!
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It's not me! Didn't even know there was a chat!
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Crazy coincidence then! Someone made a very similar joke yesterday in our meme chat room.
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I understood this joke... then felt sad because I felt old... then felt mad because I miss my manual cars...
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When you give a cheap axe to your wife as a anniversary present.
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Seems kind of erotic
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Never learned manual, and been so long since I've driven I can't even remember which pedal is gas and which is break lol
Actually, don't think I've driven in over 5 years, and that was just for work.
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That's literally my process. Each time feels brand new
Though because of brain problems I try to avoid driving
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I thought this was a destiny meme for a second, just played through the Final Shape.
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Gears: Grinded
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*grunned.
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*grunt
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Never had that problem, but I do hate it that automatics start going when you lift the break rather than when you press the gas (and engage the clutch).
An automatic car has no clutch; automatic transmissions aren't just manual transmissions that do the work for you. It has a thing called a torque converter which is kind of a hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor in one unit which allows the engine to deliver torque and yet still slip.
I've driven a manual once - in a parking lot. Most of my driving has been in an automatic. I agree with this. I should have to press the "go" pedal to go, not just release the "stop" pedal. Thankfully, I now have an EV where I can choose to have it stop when I release the "go" pedal and not go again until I press the "go" pedal.