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So I became curious about this for no reason at all the other night,
I drive a manual transmission vehicle. obviously a left hand drive because we drive on the right side of the road.
so the outboard pedal closest to the door is the clutch, middle brake and inboard is accelerator.
so on a Right hand drive vehicle, is this reversed? as in, is the left most pedal still the clutch? or is it the right hand pedal? which I guess would be the outboard pedal on a RHD vehicle.
The Left most is the clutch, middle brake and right acceleration
In other words it's the same as well as the shift pattern being the exact same.
I learned to ride on British bikes and when I bought a Japanese crotch-rocket I spent two weeks trying to shift gears with the brake pedal!
I learned to ride on British bikes and when I bought a Japanese crotch-rocket I spent two weeks trying to shift gears with the brake pedal!
I learned to ride on British bikes and when I bought a Japanese crotch-rocket I spent two weeks trying to shift gears with the brake pedal!
you ride a crotch rocket?
I'm scared of those.
Years ago, when I was immortal.
I actually survived being immortal. Many don't.
Those early Japanese machines didn't rattle, drop oil and break down every twenty miles, they were a wonderment!
The first of the "maxi" scooters, The Honda Helix/Fusion/CN250 had a footpedal rear brake like the smaller Vespas and Lambrettas but not the left-hand gearchange, where the clutch lever swivelled on the handlebar!
I think the car pedal arrangement has something to do with most people being right-side dominant, and the clutch is only used when gear-changing, whereas the other pedals are used to go either faster or slower.
(I might have made that bit up!)
Another possibility could be that one early manufacturer settled on that layout, and the others gradually followed...
So I became curious about this for no reason at all the other night,
I drive a manual transmission vehicle. obviously a left hand drive because we drive on the right side of the road.
so the outboard pedal closest to the door is the clutch, middle brake and inboard is accelerator.
so on a Right hand drive vehicle, is this reversed? as in, is the left most pedal still the clutch? or is it the right hand pedal? which I guess would be the outboard pedal on a RHD vehicle.
I hear ya
but now my job is driving 18 wheelers, so my days of carefree driving are over lest I become "uninsurable"
but yes, I've driven a 53 trailer loaded stem to stern with explosives before and didn't blink, maunvered a 48 foot trailer through the densest parts of downtown Seattle on surface streets during the afternoon rush but I'm terrified of motorcycles.
Coincidentally, one of my worst days on a motorcycle was coming through Seattle, northbound on I-5 during the afternoon rush in a driving rainstorm. You coulda bought that bike for $10 and a ride to the border! The freeway traffic patterns in the best of times were intimidating to a country hick like I was.
The Seattle urban core is where the problem comes. perhaps the only city I've been to that has a worse freeway set up is Portland. way too many off-on ramps in the speed lane. that and the system of ramps to downtown seattle is fairly challenging for someone who's not used to the set-up.
I've delivered to Vancouver BC before by semi-truck, I was pleasantly surprised, I had always assumed that place would be "Seattle North" but at least the road network was easy for me to use as a newcomer...
I grew up in a semi-rural community, across puget sound from Seattle. 4 miles and one county line away, a world apart....
Those left-lane on-off ramps did it for me. Besides being an unexpected hazard, they seem to double the jockeying-for-position lane changes during the rush.
Come to think of it, they probably help reduce the volume because people like me are careful to plan ahead so we're not in the rush.
So I became curious about this for no reason at all the other night,
I drive a manual transmission vehicle. obviously a left hand drive because we drive on the right side of the road.
so the outboard pedal closest to the door is the clutch, middle brake and inboard is accelerator.
so on a Right hand drive vehicle, is this reversed? as in, is the left most pedal still the clutch? or is it the right hand pedal? which I guess would be the outboard pedal on a RHD vehicle.
Pedals are the same as in LHD cars.
Interestingly, it was the British Austin 7 that was the first mass produced car to use what became the conventional layout - Clutch, Brake, Gas. Cadillac used this layout first, but back in the 1910's, Cadillacs were not considered mass produced cars. Until this layout became popular, car manufacturers used whatever layout they wanted. Try driving a Model T without instruction.
I have and they are a pain, most model t's I have driven were t buckets, so they were nothing like original, but every one in a while, or decade perhaps, someone comes to me with an original they found in a barn somewhere they want fixed.
They have manual transmissions that are designed like modern automatics, instead of synchros and shift forks, they use bands, drums and clutch packs, and planetary gear sets. Unlike modern automatics, there was nothing automatic about them, they had multiple levers and the driver needed to know which band came on when for each gear, meaning they had to manually control each shift element precisely.
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