<VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals

[Mike Jacobi]

Crash course (literally)  Try driving a 4 speed vair in San Francisco.  You
do a lot of heel and toe..and take a lot of life out of your clutch too.

Mike in (flat) Michigan


On 4/10/12 10:26 AM, "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org> wrote:

> Yes- daily....
> I know that using the left foot for the clutch becomes second
> nature fast, and trying to change-up in mid-stream would be
> nigh-on to impossible.
> 
> I'm just saying that if the pedals had been laid-out differently
> from the get-go it might be safer.
> 
> CJW
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Tarpenning" <bobtcars at wildblue.net>
> To: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at unctv.org>, virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2012 8:19:20 AM
> Subject: RE: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals
> 
> Have you ever driven a car with a clutch pedal?
> Bob T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:24 PM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals
> 
> 
> So an oddball question crossed my mind the other day:
> why are the control pedals under our dasboards arranged the way they are?
> 
> Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the CLUTCH pedal next to the gas
> and the BRAKE to the far left?
> 
> You have to lift your foot off the gas to release the clutch anyway....
> 
> And if the brake were on the outside you wouldn't have the 'my car ran away
> with me because I thought I was stomping the brake but I was really putting
> the gas to the floor' problem.
> 
> Who arranged the pedals thusly? Henry Ford?
> 
> CJ Wilson
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