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Originally Posted by Tcoat
You should still learn to do it without the handbrake. It is an important part of of the MT driving skill set. Most of the MTs I have drove had no hand brake (honestly most had no e/parking brakes at all since they were either seized up or broke) since they were either a floor pedal or a hand pull down by your left knee. Too use them on a hill was impossible. You may never drive something like that but if you get a chance you will be stuck if you need to start on a hill.
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So true. Many of the older cars had the e-brake as a foot pedal, so no good on hills for starting up with MT cars. And hill assist wasn't around ....... so, how did we do it ..... ??
Now days, it seems like every night on the news, it's reported that someone gets the gas and brake pedals mixed up and crashes their vehicle into a store, from a flat, open parking lot ......
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