Who left-foot brakes?

[timm]

Originally Posted by Spectra

if not right-hand drive, then at least, bench seats --- Have you removed the senter console?

But if you did, there go the deluxe cup-holders ...

I fabricated a bracket and managed to move the center console back about 6". This works great for me during the route and still gives me an armrest, cupholders and storage the rest of the time. I know several other mail carriers who have removed it completely.

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[hyo silver]

Originally Posted by patsparks

Centre.

Oh thank goodness. Somebody else wot can spell English.

I use left foot braking all the time. On the xbox.

[Sitting Duc]

I never left-foot-brake, centrally for two reasons:

1. After 13-some years of driving manuals, I learned but quick first time in an automatic: left foot on brake is only good for testing Emergency Stop
2. One of my stated reasons for getting a Prius in the first place is because my left foot is failing and I can't run a manual any more; but a standard automatic is lousy for fuel economy, so Prius - no clutch and better fuel economy than my manual 1.5L that it replaced.

Of course, the left-foot "hand brake" is still annoying, but at least I only have to flick that twice per trip; instead of standing on it for several minutes at every red light or round-a-bout.
In four months of prius ownership, I've mostly trained myself out of reaching for the clutch as I slow down or move off the line

[AussieOwner]

I occassionally left foot brake, generally when moving around tight areas. Occassionally do it on longer runs to just move that leg around, rather than have it doing nothing at all.

My mother has always left footed the brake, or at least as long as she has had an automatic. She keeps her foot off the brake so that she is not riding the brakes, but I find I cannot sit comfortable given the position of the actual brake pedal.

[yabba]

Originally Posted by hyo silver

Oh thank goodness. Somebody else wot can spell English.

Erm Nope - 'centre' is the correct spelling in England!

[hyo silver]

Originally Posted by yabba

Erm Nope - 'centre' is the correct spelling in England!

And also in the home countries of Pat and I.