About 20 years ago I was doing auto safety research related to an auto safety-braking device my brother had recently patented in the U.S.A.. One thing we discovered, is that some states instruct drivers to NEVER, EVER use left foot braking when driving an automatic transmission equipped vehicle. It seems they did some left foot braking studies using test groups of 50 drivers, who practiced negotiating road courses with cones and pop-up plastic pedestrians, and it turned out a significant number of them had a sort of left foot/right foot "dyslexia", where their brains tell the wrong foot to take action in an emergency, and found that up to 40% of all drivers may exhibit this dangerous driving trait in an emergency situation. The test subjects were selected at random from typical A/T drivers, and most were typically right foot only A/T drivers. I am not sure how scientifically valid these old state patrol studies were, but they did reveal that many people’s brains may simply be wired incorrectly for two footed driving in A/T equipped vehicles. I suppose that if all they taught was two-footed A/T driving, these findings would be far less of an issue, but the test results were at least interesting. Perhaps there are just a lot of uncoordinated people out there. No surprise.