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by X-Istence
4870 days ago
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Moving from an manual to an automatic can still be quite jarring, even if you don't have engine braking. Ever been in an automatic after driving a stick shift for years? The brake pedal is twice as wide and is in approximately the same location as where the clutch is found ... get into an emergency situation? Your mind will automatically want to disengage the clutch and hit the brakes, so you go for where the clutch pedal would be normally and instead hit the brake pedal ... Yeah, I was used to driving my Subaru Impreza with a stick shift, then I drove my dads BMW 5-series, got into a sticky situation in traffic and had to come to a quick and sudden stop, there was no thinking involved, push the clutch and the brake was my immediate reaction... let me tell you, that BMW stopped on a dime, luckily there was no-one behind me or I'd have to explain to my dad how instinct and sheer muscle memory on my part caused someone to rear-end me and ruin his car, all because my left foot went for the clutch and caught the edge of the brake pedal... |
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