Why Are Automatic Brake Pedals So Large?

[tridentt150v]

Why is the brake peddle so big.............

Why did the chicken cross the road........................its all part of being able to understand women, and don't you believe them, size DOES matter.

Actually I reckon they made it that big so that people like me - who always drive manuals - so that when I do get into an auto the first intersection I come to I go to change gears and put my passenger thru the windscreen, but I'm OK I have an airbag. Then I get rear ended by the car behind me...........and they wonder why I hate slush boxes????

[mad082]

the first time i drove an auto i had had my licence for about 2 years. i didn't hit the brakes with my left foot. you are just unco. i moved my foot out of habit to where the clutch pedal would be, but didn't touch the brake.

[ctjet]

maybe its so big because they know as an auto driver your a spastic and cant drive a manual so they make the brake pedal as large as possible so you cant miss it?

[Yidz]

maybe its so big because they know as an auto driver your a spastic and cant drive a manual so they make the brake pedal as large as possible so you cant miss it?

LOL beat me to it

[sinistaGTR]

yep agreed if your that must of a spastic you cant change gears then having the biggest possible brake pedal might give you some hope of driving

[thorpe84]

extreme brake pedal

ROFLMAO. maybe the crazy japs did a study and found that auto drivers had fatter legs then manual ones?

[mid life crisis]

my ol torry used to have the "hand" brake left side next to the main brake with a switch left of the console you had to "twist and pull"

of coarse the car started as a column shift auto, became a t-bar auto then a 4 sp manual. ahhhh the ol steel thing was great... doors 4" thick.. choice wood grain coloir plastics with the lino covered foam infils.. pure class

did burnouts well though with its leaf springs. major braking upgrade went from rear drums to 4 wheel disks .. awsome.

that thing chewed more blocks then any other car I've ever owned to this day.. it was the variable capacity car.. it had as much capacity as I could afford at the next time I blew something...

lol torries never had leaf springs all coil rears ive raced dozens of them over the yrs lc right thru slr 5000 never seen a leaf spring on any of them

[anfo]

i love reading this kind of stuff while at work

makes the day pass so much faster hahaha