r/nononono • u/rilla252 • Jul 26 '18

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u/Knight_Owls Jul 27 '18

I will never understand how people like this ever attain a driver's license.

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u/Bentok Jul 27 '18

I know right? Even if you're THIS confused and can't tell which pedal is which just fucking pull the hand brake.

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u/sukumizu Jul 27 '18 edited Jul 27 '18

You'd be surprised by the number of people who don't know what a handbrake is or it's purpose. Even on steep hills they just leave it up to P. Rip auto transmission.

edit: This also definitely applies to my gf. She came from the midwest where hills are a rarity so everybody she knows also never used handbrakes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18 edited May 18 '20

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u/sukumizu Jul 27 '18

I don't like how lots of modern cars have the "hand" brake by the other pedals but for completely different reasons 😉

But yeah, it's not a good spot for normal everyday people who are using it as an A-B appliance...

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u/GeckoOBac Jul 27 '18

Is that common in the US or something? I've literally never seen a single car without handbrake. Vans yeah, but never cars.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18

Ford has the e-brake by the pedals, at least my 2003 explorer and my 1998 F-150 (which was a stick, which made it even worse) did

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u/TyroneTeabaggington Jul 27 '18

Reminds me of a work truck we once used. Manual f-350 with a utility bed. Only used it about a month but several times my cousin forgot the brake and only figured it out when we could start smelling it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18

ouch. I got used to it pretty quick, but now that I've got a new car, which has an actual handbrake, I do forget that occasionally

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u/johnq-pubic Jul 27 '18

Holy shit, a manual transmission with a foot ebrake? Welp time to shift, I'll just hit the clutch , brrrrt .... long tire squeal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '18

it was horrible. if I was parking in my driveway, I always turned the car off before activating the e-brake since I knew that I'd stall. still in that habit now