My car is manual, and my work car was automatic, I’ve done this several times
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Submitted 6 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 6 months ago
EatATaco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
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.
kemsat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m not understanding either. When I drove manual. I used the left foot exclusively for the clutch, and in an automatic, I don’t use the left foot at all.
EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s usually when I realize that my turn is “right there,” and kind of an oh shit moment
Rinox@feddit.it 6 months ago
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
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 months ago
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.
schnokobaer@feddit.de 6 months ago
How could that possibly happen? Do you left-foot-brake?
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… no, but you left foot clutch, and the brake pedal in an automatic is the width of both pedals in a manual. Forget, floor the “clutch” to shift, and that’s that. Just hope you forget when you first start going rather than when getting up to speed on a highway.
schnokobaer@feddit.de 6 months ago
and the brake pedal in an automatic is the width of both pedals in a manual
Yeah… no.
The clutch would be to the left of both pedals in an automatic. Your foot rests in the empty space left of the brake pedal, usually there’s some kind of footrest roughly where the clutch would be. If anything you’d slam on that rest. Lifting your left foot off that rest (where the clutch you intend to slam would be) to hit the center pedal (which is where the brake is in any car) makes zero sense as a potential mixup. Not to mention it would feel extremely unnatural to operate a pedal so far right with your left foot if you tried.
whostosay@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m with you, we got some neanderthal MFs in here
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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!
Gork@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What happened to that statue lol
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It hit the extra wide brake pedal instead of the non-existent clutch pedal.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think you’ll have to explain to most of the audience what a clutch is
Turious@leaf.dance 6 months ago
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.
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Also you press the clutch pedal a lot harder and quicker than the brake pedal so you really slam it.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or they don’t know how to drive automatic and brake with their left foot. Either way, it doesn’t check out
baggins@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Wider pedal in an automatic. You can catch the edge of it if you’re going for the clith
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
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.
Addv4@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 months ago
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.
Disregard3145@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On some cars that empty space where the clutch would be is the handbrake
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My parents 77 ford maybe f-150 (not sure if they were called that yet–actually I think it was something starting with an E) had the floor dimmer switch.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For me i suppose it doesn’t help that im also experienced 30s and 20s cars that have button pedals so everything but the brakes feel like a dimmer switch so I guess that also doesn’t help
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ve done this in my ambulance and nearly ate the steering wheel. All that weight DOES NOT like coming to a sudden stop
vin@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Why would you want to slam on clutch, and that too without simultaneously slamming the brakes??
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You slam on the clutch to change gears. And you get used to changing gears while decelerating to use the engine brake as much as possible
PapaStevesy@midwest.social 6 months ago
What “slam” though? Why not just press the clutch down? I’ve driven manuals before and definitely didn’t have to do any slamming of the pedals, it worked great.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some automatics have extra wide break pedals. You’d put both feet on the same pedal.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or hit while just changing gears. Then panic and push harder because your brain doesn’t understand why you’re slowing up.
thequikone@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
If you’re new to automatics, or don’t drive them often, the trick is to tuck your left foot behind your right leg to stop you from doing this.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or just cut it off tbh
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
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.
letsgo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Next time you’re driving somewhere, just pick a pedal and push it to see if it has the desired effect. If you go faster that’s the gas. If you go slower that’s the brake. If neither of them do anything try switching the engine on. You might need to fiddle with the gearstick as well, one of them makes you go backwards, the others are forwards. Just experiment and you’ll figure it out.
Preferably well away from any othe traffic.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
That’s literally my process. Each time feels brand new
Though because of brain problems I try to avoid driving
exanime@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I understood this joke… then felt sad because I felt old… then felt mad because I miss my manual cars…
random_character_a@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When you give a cheap axe to your wife as a anniversary present.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Seems kind of erotic
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Somebody’s in the !autism@lemmy.world chat!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not me!
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
There’s Lemmy chat now? How does that work?? Is it like IRC?
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Crazy coincidence then! Someone made a very similar joke yesterday in our meme chat room.
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve had to drive manuals at work and after a day of it I do this driving home at least twice.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I thought this was a destiny meme for a second, just played through the Final Shape.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Gears: Grinded
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
*grunned.
AscendantSquid@lemm.ee 6 months ago
*grunt
Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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).
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.
kn33@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
scytale@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Most newer cars that have electronic parking brakes have an auto brake-hold feature that you can turn on. It keeps the car still when you depress the brake pedal a little deeper. Then the car won’t move when you release the brake and will only do when you step on the gas (or brake) again. It’s very useful at stop lights and drive thrus so you don’t have to keep your foot on the brakes all the time.