In cars with the steering wheel on the wrong side (sarcasticly), are the petals mirrored or just shifted over?
Left to Right:
American Cars:
Clutch Break Gas
British Cars:
Clutch Break Gas
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Gas Break Clutch [/i]
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Car *basic* question: (Right side steering wheel)
In cars with the steering wheel on the wrong side (sarcasticly), are the petals mirrored or just shifted over?
Left to Right:
American Cars:
Clutch Break Gas
British Cars:
Clutch Break Gas
-or-
Gas Break Clutch [/i]
Same arrangement as US cars. From Left to right, clutch, brake, accelerator.
There'd be some spectacular cock ups if they weren't
^ +1.Originally Posted by carbonhed
There'd be some spectacular *BEEP* ups if they weren'tops:
The whole point to having the wrong side steering wheel is so that the left side of the body controls all shifting (left foot clutch, left hand shifter). The right side of the body controls brake/gas and steering.
The only thing that's mirrored is the H pattern for gears.
H pattern isn't mirrored, it's 1-3-5 just like any other car :P At least none of the RHD cars I've ever seen...
You're right, I don't know why I thought it was backward.
I could never drive that way. I've seen some supercars with shifters in the door so you can shift with your right hand, if I ever went to a RHD country I would definitely need that.
IMO it's something that seems really really weird to shift with the left hand, but then you do it and you're just as good at it as the "normal" way. Much more interesting is driving on the correct side of the road :P
So everyone is in agreement that the clutch is on the inside?
^ Yes.
There are quite a few videos of Japanese race-car drivers on various enthusiast shows that have "footwork cameras," and you can confirm this first-hand. British shows like Top Gear also occasionally have footwork shots.
A local Scooby enthusiast and friend of mine is from NZ, and upon my having offered him my then-new Legacy for a drive, he'd commented on how strange the stick positioning was, but, of course, said nothing about the pedals, which are a direct "translation" over.
Got it?
Fairly easy to do, the feel of the pedals is completely different or at least should be. Some really really old European cars had the gas pedal in the centre :shock: but that's going to Model A days
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