40-year-old drivers also make mistakes: do not step on the accelerator, do you want to put your foot on the brake?

Put your foot on the brake without stepping on the accelerator – it's a very wrong driving habit, but if you're used to it, don't change it! The brakes are nuclear weapons, do not use them easily, try to use the throttle to control the speed. When we evaluate a person's driving skills, most of them also look at how the person steps on the brakes, if you don't step on the accelerator, the foot is put on the brake, then it is most likely a novice.

Why is it wrong to say that this is wrong?

1, easy to put the throttle as a brake: usually the feet are put on the brakes, then how do you step on the brakes? It's just stepping on it, right? What if you're preparing to slowly pick up when an emergency occurs and your foot is on the throttle? At this time, people's instinctive reaction will directly step on it, and the throttle will be the brake! Of course, I'm talking about easy to step on, not necessarily, but it's not good for muscle memory. When an emergency occurs, there are two possibilities, one is that your foot is on the accelerator at the time, and the other is on the brake, there is no muscle memory, how do you judge at that time? If the brain judges, it is 0.1 seconds slower than the instinctive response, and it is even easy to step on the wrong step, if it is really wrong, the consequences do not need me to say more, right?

2, increase fuel consumption: Volkswagen's ID series pure tram, the rear wheels are all replaced by disc brakes to drum brakes, is it really to reduce costs? To be honest, the public deduction cost is indeed very powerful, but the drum brake is really not because of this. Mainly to increase pure electric endurance. But why can the drum brake increase pure electrical endurance? Because even if the disc brake is fully released, there will be about 4 Nm of residual braking force, and the drum brake has a reset device, so there is no excess resistance after full release.

Now you see, right? Even if you are fully released, there is still a slight brake resistance, and even can affect the endurance of the pure tram, not to mention that your feet are always on the brakes?

3, tired: the brake is higher than the accelerator, how do you put your feet on it, do not step on it, but also make yourself comfortable? A short time is fine, if it is a long time, not tired? My ankle joint is relatively hard, I just can't do the "Asian squat", and I can only bend upward at a very limited angle. Anyway let me put on the brakes for a long time, I can't stand it.

4, easy to brake overheating: when do we not need to step on the accelerator? In two cases, the first is taxiing, when you are sliding with the brakes can only increase fuel consumption, as mentioned earlier. There is also a case that, that is, long downhill! Long downhill know to use engine brakes, do you know what this road condition is more afraid of? The fear is that the brakes will overheat! How can it be overheating, is that you keep sliding with the brakes. Extreme cases, even if you hang the manual mode, switch to the second gear, but because the foot on the brake, there is a slight braking effect, feel too slow, up three gears, this is equivalent to the third gear grinding the brake downhill, the short slope is good, if the ramp is long enough, you need to step on the brake, may have been heat attenuated.

Second, how should it be operated?

1. Throttle speed control: Most of the time, the foot is placed on the throttle, the accelerator is stepped on when accelerating, the throttle is stabilized when the speed is even, and the throttle is closed when decelerating. Needless to say, even HEV hybrids have kinetic energy recovery, so the throttle will have a very obvious deceleration effect. Even if it is a pure fuel vehicle, there is no energy recovery, when you completely release the throttle, you will also enter the towing condition, at this time as the number of revolutions is higher than the number of idle revolutions, the engine will not inject fuel, and there is an engine braking effect.

When you don't step on the accelerator, your feet are still on the accelerator, steady the oil, collect the oil!

Why is this so, because in this case, you step on the brakes, you will form a muscle memory, move the foot! So you don't step on the wrong one!

2. Predict the brakes: When will the foot be placed on the brakes? When you anticipate danger, you have a string in your head, and you know what you have to do when you find danger - just step on it, so it can be clearly distinguished from the previous situation. Let's take a simple example, my personal experience, one-way narrow road, single lane, and the road surface is still parked, when I get to the intersection, I will get used to the foot brake, reduce the speed to even if there is a mad dog laterally, the speed of 50 kilometers per hour suddenly appears I can brake. Because of this habit, when I didn't see the lateral car coming, I slowed down in advance and successfully avoided an accident - although the collision was also the responsibility of the other party.

How to predict? Assume danger at any time. For example, at an intersection, you assume that there will be a mad dog out of the side. For example, if you have a bicycle or an electric car next to you in a non-mixed lane, you assume that he will fall in front of your wheels in the next second. For example, in a narrow alley, there are cars parked on the side of the road, and you assume that in the gap between every car, a ghost probe child will suddenly appear...

You've already made a prediction, so it really happened, you don't panic, and you lower the speed in advance, so that the foot brakes can be braked.

If you don't anticipate it, it doesn't matter if you're suddenly caught off guard, because you still have muscle memory when you don't have a prejudgment — to move your foot.

3, the posture of the right foot: this everyone should know, the heel is the shaft, is stepping on the brake, obliquely stepping on the accelerator.

4. How to step on the sudden brake? The point brake is wrong, it is a stomp to death, pay attention to the wording, stomp! Full body force, one-time stepping to the end! The rest is left to ESP. The point brake was in ancient times without ABS, and the artificial ABS handed down by the old driver is now useless. Also, when braking sharply, don't forget to glance in the rearview mirror, because sometimes rear-end collisions are not necessarily the worst result, you know.

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Third, why is it recommended that you not change

I have already told you that this is a bad habit and can easily cause misoperation. But if you've been doing this for more than a year and have developed a habit, then so be it, don't change it. At least don't change it! Because if you change it, you may be confused in the panic, and it is easier to brake the throttle - this kind of thing is not to be done once!

So what to do? Find a remedy with prejudgments! When there is no risk, be clean and neat, put your feet on the accelerator, control the distance, speed, stay away from the risk, and avoid the situation of sharp braking. When you anticipate the risk, the string breaks in your head, and when you are defensive, you will not step on the wrong one.

There are also people, right foot throttle left foot brake, mostly women. Of course, this driving mode is also wrong, the car is so open, but the family car you are so physically crooked, driving for a long time must be tired. However, this habit should not be changed, it may be worse, and it is possible that the left foot cannot find the brake in an emergency. Most cars now have a brake priority system (BOS), which means that if the brake throttle is pressed at the same time, the brakes will be prioritized. Therefore, the habit of driving with two feet will not affect safety, because the right foot throttle and the left foot brake will not be wrong.

Fourth, the brakes are nuclear weapons, try to step on them as little as possible

How to see if a person is an old driver? It is good to see how many kilometers he changes the brake pads - this is definitely inaccurate, 100,000 kilometers of high speed and 100,000 kilometers of congested urban areas, brake wear must not be compared. But one thing is true, the old driver brakes less.

When do you need to slam on the brakes? Mostly relatively urgent situations. And why can the old driver step less? Most of them were thought to be able to circumvent emergencies before they occurred. For example, on the highway, you see that the vehicles hundreds of meters away in front of you have turned on the brake lights, which means that there may be a situation in front of you, then you don't have to give this foot oil, collect oil and slide, and slow down in advance.

On the road, one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brakes, it is definitely a novice, and the old driver's speed rises and falls much less. This is not only fuel efficient, but also comfortable to sit.

5. Where are the fixed speed cruise or adaptive cruise feet?

Now the auxiliary driving function has been more popular, and how evil the car companies blow, they are all L2 levels, all of which are only auxiliary. It can greatly relieve your fatigue on the high speed, but that thing is not reliable, remember, not reliable! Blowing what FSD, see how complicated the road conditions do not have to take over, useless. Complex road conditions, it is useless to succeed ten thousand times, and failure once will kill you!

So, no matter how much you blow autopilot, you can't really be automatic when it's automatic, please take responsibility for the safety of your own life and the lives of others. Your foot can be placed not on the brake, but it must be placed in a place where it can brake. There has to be this awareness in my head too — it's not reliable, I have to take over at any time, brake at any time. When using it, you don't have to test where its limits are, feel that it has exceeded your prejudgment, just take over, and then re-enter the auxiliary mode after the risk is eliminated.

Adaptive cruise is equivalent to a weakened version of assisted driving, which can be understood as an automatic follow-up system that does not change lanes, maintains a fixed distance from the car in front, and the speed changes with the change of the car in front. Some encounter automatic adjustments that plug into the vehicle, while others do not. Again, it relieves your fatigue, you don't have to use the depth of the throttle to control the speed at any time, and you don't have to be vigilant all the time, worrying about deviating from the lane. If you say that you need to play 12 points of spirit to drive at high speed, then it is enough to use assisted driving and use a ten points. Hands and feet can be relaxed, but the spirit cannot.

Cruise control is simpler, that is, to step on the accelerator for you, to free your right foot, essentially you are still driving. This is the lowest price for automation, but it is the safest. Don't put your feet on the brakes, but be mentally prepared to brake at any time.

Finally: avoid lifting the bar, make it clear: the correct muscle memory should be to move the foot brake, and when there is a prejudgment of the brake, because the brain has made preparations, so the foot can be placed on the brake, so that it will not be wrong. Usually the foot is on the brake, when you are prepared, it is good, afraid that when you accelerate, there is a sudden danger, at this time your muscle memory may be directly stepped on - you know, when accelerating, your foot is on the accelerator pedal. This is the root cause of this habit of being easily stepped on.