Watch it continue after this.
- Some guys actually do things other than play video games and work at a desk. Those guys understand left foot braking as not all that complex or esoteric an idea.
- I wouldn’t say it was a stupid place to put the starter pedal, it was the most direct link (mechanical) to the starter motor. Certainly not as stupid as having to tear apart a steering column (including the risk of airbag deployment) to get at the modern equivalent.
- Now about your math…
200 mph~300ft/second. Exactly how long do believe synapses to be? And if that’s too complex for you, consider this- a kid runs into the street and you slam on your brakes. Average reaction time for a good driver is less than a second. If the brain, which must process the image of the kid, decide what to do, send a nerve impulse to the foot (left OR right), while continuing to make other decisions about the event, didn’t function in MICROSECONDS, that kid would die every time. Since you mention google, look up a Chinese ping pong match. You can’t even hardly SEE the ball. Tell me their brains don’t adjust in microseconds! lol
“3. Now about your math…
200 mph~300ft/second. Exactly how long do believe synapses to be? And if that’s too complex for you, consider this- a kid runs into the street and you slam on your brakes. Average reaction time for a good driver is less than a second. If the brain, which must process the image of the kid, decide what to do, send a nerve impulse to the foot (left OR right), while continuing to make other decisions about the event, didn’t function in MICROSECONDS, that kid would die every time. Since you mention google, look up a Chinese ping pong match. You can’t even hardly SEE the ball. Tell me their brains don’t adjust in microseconds! lol”
a. I didn’t mention Google in this context.
b. How far do you suppose the brain is from the foot? Using the 300ft/sec figure, which is a maximum, it takes 1.7 milliseconds (a millisecond is 1000 microseconds) for a nerve impulse to travel 6 inches. So you’ve got distance from the retina to the brain, bouncing around inside the brain, then going down to the leg. You can measure any time interval, e.g. years in microseconds, but it’s disingenuous to say that the brain adjusts in microseconds, even worse to say in MICROSECONDS.
c. There was a typo at the end, what did mean when you said “lol”?
All that needed to be said was, if the boyfriend brakes abruptly and suddenly then he is a bad driver. Whether he is right footed or left footed is neither here nor there. He could skid, he could be back ended and he could hurt his passengers. He is certainly an hazard to other road users.
Posting on this forum is like grabbing a tiger by the tail. These guys need to take a few chill pills.
Posts that don’t not require any technical knowhow and are opinion-based always attract many replies. I think this one has been beaten to death.
It does not matter if the post is technical based as the technical words get distorted also, anything so as one does not need to think. You are correct to point out that very few are capable of giving technical answers, but everyone has an opinion.
Whitey’s earlier tongue in cheek comment to you about the belligerent drunk was ‘spot on’!
Micro or milli, contrary to your first post to me (“Since nerve impulses travel at less than 200 mph, the brain most certainly does not adjust in MICROSECONDS, or even microseconds.”) the brain absolutely DOES adjust that quickly and does it thousands of times a day. How is saying so disingenuous? My field is construction, not neuroscience, but this is pretty basic knowledge from high school.
My passed father in law (RIP) used his left foot for braking. Since I did most of his vehicle repair, it was a drag having to replace disc brake pads every 20K miles on his car. When he bought a 4 X 4 manual trans pickup, we solved the problem by installing a left foot pedal in car and truck. And to protect the clutch.
More to the subject, when I ran an auto center for a major marketer, I remember a suggestion that when effecting any brake repair, to move the drivers seat 1 notch away from the steering wheel. It created a change in the driver’s brake application. When he drives, does he readjust the seat position?