FFSstavros

Cruise control too boring or just not available in your car?

nzskater

Corners and traffic can still exist on a long boring trip Noting like a bit of left foot acceleration to mix it up a little!

Iceter

I broke my leg in college and the only way I could get around was to learn to drive with my left foot while my leg was in a cast. It's easy enough after a few miles.

Devil Boy

I left foot brake when I autocross but I don't do it during track days or regular street driving.

996tnz

I know several such people, but then again I track. Mostly I track manuals but my 996T is a tip and I run it in Porsche Club sprints. As others have pointed out, left foot braking helps lap times and can also be used with manuals, as I do. YouTube has plenty of footage of rally and track champions doing the same, though I realise not all do it. Just takes practice, like most things worth getting good at.

Granted, this is a risk, particularly when first learning the skill or when driving inattentively. On the flipside, it greatly reduces reaction time when braking for unexpected events and allows much faster accelerator-brake cycling which helps with maintaining car control during fast cornering or emergency manouvers. Similarly, I find it invaluable for getting fast autocross times.

As Jake's (the OP's) opening question about leg fatigue illustrates, neither he nor I are resting our left feet anywhere usually - they remain positioned millimeters from the brake pedal, ready for instant action.

No, but it has occured to me before that it I hurt my right leg, I'd probably be able to drive auto fine with only my left. Since the accelerator is even more offset to the right than the brake is to the left though, and it doesn't carry the reaction time and cornering advantages of left foot braking I wouldn't personally be doing it voluntarily.

nzskater

I must admit it was post injury and only happened on one trip.

On reading this today I thought to test my brake light, I need to depress the pedal about 2-3mm before the light turns on. Be interested to know how others cars behave? As above, I don't rest my foot on the pedal. It tends to hover just above.

Rotmilky

Like several of the posters before me, I left foot brake during autocross (and my car is a manual). Given the very rapid and frequent swapping between braking and gas, I can't right-foot only brake and get anywhere near the level of speed control that I can with both feet. That said, I still probably end up being slower more often than not because of timing mistakes that result in the engine cutting power for what seems like an eon. Nothing as maddening as coasting for a few seconds in an autocross. Ah I wish that could be turned off.

During any other driving time, I right foot brake. I've never found it to be a problem swapping between the two. What is a bigger problem for me is swapping from the 911 (which is manual) to my other vehicles (which are automatic). Within the first 5 minutes, I will try to press the clutch in on the automatic and lock up the brakes in the process. I've got at least 3-4 gallons of dried up coffee on the dashboard and windshield.