<VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals NO Corvair

[Rich Gregory]

...and next we will be re-inventing the wheel?  It has worked fine...forever.  Leave it alone!

Rich G


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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 07:19:20 -0500
From: "Bob Tarpenning" <bobtcars at wildblue.net>
Subject: Re: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals
To: "'Jeff Wilson'" <jwilson at unctv.org>,	<virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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Have you ever driven a car with a clutch pedal?
Bob T

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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Wilson
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:24 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Slightly OT rant re pedals


So an oddball question crossed my mind the other day: 
why are the control pedals under our dasboards arranged the way they are?

Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the CLUTCH pedal next to the gas
and the BRAKE to the far left?

You have to lift your foot off the gas to release the clutch anyway....

And if the brake were on the outside you wouldn't have the 'my car ran away
with me because I thought I was stomping the brake but I was really putting
the gas to the floor' problem.

Who arranged the pedals thusly? Henry Ford?

CJ Wilson