D'oh! Once again, in a manual, you use the clutch and accelerator to control speed when parking and \ or reversing. This is called 'clutch control' and requires TWO feet. When parking an auto, you're a complete idiot if you try and control your speed when similarly parking and \ or reversing, by solely using your right foot. Use TWO feet, this time using the left foot to control speed via the brake.

Once you have mastered this, it then becomes 2nd nature to use LFB when driving 'normally.' Frankly, I wouldnt get in an auto if the driver only ever uses their right foot.

Thanks for your vote of confidence.

I'll be sure not to invite you.

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I'm with you there. I brake with left foot in an auto, right foot in a manual (which I can happiliy jump into at at moment's notice) ... and right foot and hand on a motorbike. And I don't get confused. Go figure. Looks like it's actually easy to learn multiple techniques if you can be bothered.

Foot parking brakes are generally at a different height from the foot brake. I never had any confusion. So are brakes pedals on many automatics. I've never had any confustion right foot braking. Maybe I should report myself to the police as a potnetial killer/suicide candidate...

D'oh! Once again, in a manual, you use the clutch and accelerator to control speed when parking and \ or reversing. This is called 'clutch control' and requires TWO feet. When parking an auto, you're a complete idiot if you try and control your speed when similarly parking and \ or reversing, by solely using your right foot. Use TWO feet, this time using the left foot to control speed via the brake.

Once you have mastered this, it then becomes 2nd nature to use LFB when driving 'normally.' Frankly, I wouldn't get in an auto if the driver only ever uses their right foot.

Thank you for a sensible post, I have posted copiously on HJ forum on the subject of left foot braking on autos to retain control at slow parking and reversing speeds, and always get rude replies from the right foot brigade that I am wrong, despite having been an instructor teaching auto and manual. Will they never learn to update their driving behaviour?