Well all I can say, and you can quote me on this, is that advice is both
prejudiced and plainly idiotic. And following it is possibly killing as many as 120 people a year (I can quote examples). Just because the person writing the handbook has inadequate control of his limbs he has 'automatically' assumed that everyone does, and that is a very dangerous assumption. My advice is and has always been: To be sure of remaining fully in control of an automatic, always manoeuvre it two footed, left foot ready to brake at any time. Out on the open road, whether you left foot brake or right foot brake depends on how co-ordinated you are. But do not ever allow your own lack of co-ordination to become dogma printed in a driving manual. To make snide comments about Scandinavian drivers is even worse. In Finland you have to learn to control slides on snow and ice before you can even get a driving licence. The relevant pages you quote of this driver's manual should be torn out and binned before they kill more pedestrians.