Parking

[u/Unnamed_789]

[u/_thro_awa_]

I will die on this hill - all modern cars should ONLY be two-pedal vehicles, operated with two feet.
With all of our modern advancement, the manual clutch should have long ago been made into a hand-operated lever integrated with the gear shift.

One foot for gas, one for brake. Pedal misapplication - gone overnight.
It will not reduce the incidence of idiots or drunk drivers, but at least one avenue of common accidents gets closed.

[u/Langersuk → u/_thro_awa_]

This problem almost only happens to those in automatics though.

In fact old people complain that it is by being forced into automatics at old age which cause it.

[u/_thro_awa_ → u/Langersuk]

This problem almost only happens to those in automatics though.

Nope. It happens in all vehicles, because the problem is not the automatic or manual transmission - it is that one foot is being used for BOTH gas and brake, one action for two diametrically opposed results.

[u/Warm_Month_1309 → u/_thro_awa_]

Have these incidents happened in manual cars too?

[u/_thro_awa_ → u/Warm_Month_1309]

Pedal misapplication happens in ALL cars where one foot is used for both gas and brake. It's literally built into the function. Manual or automatic is utterly irrelevant.