This old chestnut is so old it's got whiskers on.

Braking using your left foot is to maintain proper control at low speeds whilst manoeuvering or parking. Your right foot can then add a little throttle if needed with no danger of stamping on the throttle instead of the brake.

For normal driving above parking speeds revert to right foot only for throttle or brake.

Using just the right foot is the cause of many elderly drivers with automatic cars having "out of control" accidents when parking I suspect.

I find left braking so natural in my auto and do it all the time but strangely, if I am driving the wifes manual I instictively brake with my right foot and never feel the urge for the left to foot to get active.

Absolutely, Happy Blue - this topic comes up every few months with the same arguments, and doesn't get any more interesting.

There are plenty of good reasons for adopting LFB, well set out by HJ and others; but I haven't done so personally, precisely because my wife's car is a manual. But Pica manages it without trouble, which just goes to show that we are all different.

Each to their own - although driving is largely instinctive, and I wouldn't advocate changing the habit of a lifetime if like me you've been driving for 50 years.

I think that anyone who ever drives manual gearbox vehicles should never use left foot braking. I've never used it on an auto and I can't think when I would need to.

If you have an auto only licence and so never, ever drive manual cars, then left foot braking would be OK.

If you usually drive a manual and switch to auto I would seriously advise you to tuck your left foot well out of the way of the pedals because if you go for the non existant clutch with the left foot you might find yourself hitting the brake and executing an emergency stop!