Car rolling back

alembicbassman

A CVT won't roll back either. But they are pretty awful auto gearboxes.

Car_54

alembicbassman wrote: »

A CVT won't roll back either. But they are pretty awful auto gearboxes.

The early ones cetainly were - DAFs and Volvos. But the Honda one is pretty good and (reportedly) very reliable.

Mercdriver

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

By "trying to look cleaver", are you implying that they have a knife like wit?

you 'butchered' that joke

Arklight

In a manual test you're expected to put the handbrake on for any stop of more than a few seconds. I assumed that was the case with automatic as well as when Mrs Arklight learned on an automatic and got her own car, I feared she would wear the lever out.

Incidentally, in the US I met people who completely denied the possibility that their car had any such thing as a "parking brake". I told one person to check for a little pedal by her left foot. She reported back the next day, with some surprise, that her car actually did have one of these.

shaun_from_Africa

Arklight wrote: »

Incidentally, in the US I met people who completely denied the possibility that their car had any such thing as a "parking brake"

That may well be to do with the terminology.
What we in the UK refer to as the parking brake or hand brake is often called the emergency brake in the USA and although this term is gradually going away, it is still used by a lot of people.

lincroft1710

cajef wrote: »

Indeed as an ex ADI that is the term that instructors are taught to use, it far easier to say more gas or less gas when teaching pupils use of the accelerator.

I seem to remember my instructor using the word "gas", and that was 50 yrs ago!

lincroft1710

Arklight wrote: »

Incidentally, in the US I met people who completely denied the possibility that their car had any such thing as a "parking brake". I told one person to check for a little pedal by her left foot. She reported back the next day, with some surprise, that her car actually did have one of these.

There was certainly one on the Chevrolet Citation auto I hired in the US in 1982!

Davy_Jones_II

Is there any reason if you have an auto-only licence not to use left foot braking?

It’s not a good idea if you drive manuals as well, as you get used to applying far more pressure with the clutch foot but you don’t have that issue if you only drive automatics.

I suppose that there’s a chance that you brake and accelerate together, which is generally poor practice.

EssexExile

Davy_Jones_II wrote: »

Is there any reason if you have an auto-only licence not to use left foot braking?

It’s not a good idea if you drive manuals as well, as you get used to applying far more pressure with the clutch foot but you don’t have that issue if you only drive automatics.

I suppose that there’s a chance that you brake and accelerate together, which is generally poor practice.

I think the main problem is that people drive along with their left foot resting on the brake pedal. They are the ones with their brake lights on all the time or smoke coming from their wheels.

Mercdriver

Davy_Jones_II wrote: »

Is there any reason if you have an auto-only licence not to use left foot braking?

It’s not a good idea if you drive manuals as well, as you get used to applying far more pressure with the clutch foot but you don’t have that issue if you only drive automatics.

I suppose that there’s a chance that you brake and accelerate together, which is generally poor practice.

It's the risk of pressing both pedals simultaneously, I believe, or overreaching with the left foot and pressing hard on the gas pedal.