One for us drivers of RHD cars - when using cruise control what do you do with your right foot?

 

I'm finding that I tend to place the outside of my foot against the wheel arc but as there is no rest there my foot twists and becomes uncomfortable after a while. Moving my foot to be flat on the floor is far more relaxing but is further away from the throttle or brake pedal, and therefore feels that it's slower should I need to take a quick action. Not sure if it is made worse by the fact that I'm shoe size 11-12.

I keep mine flat on the floor. Ours has a DSG and I believe some drivers use left foot braking which makes sense as the left foot is close by on the footrest. However my left foot isn't calibrated and when I tried it once I pressed too hard. Does anyone else use left foot braking?

8 minutes ago, Jim2015 said:

I keep mine flat on the floor. Ours has a DSG and I believe some drivers use left foot braking which makes sense as the left foot is close by on the footrest. However my left foot isn't calibrated and when I tried it once I pressed too hard. Does anyone else use left foot braking?

 

Thanks. The loan car I'm driving is a DSG and my left foot is very comfy as you describe. Like you, I found left foot braking more of a liability than a benefit and as my own car (which I hope to get back soon) is a Manual I need my left foot calibrated for the clutch!

 

I'll try again keeping the right foot on the floor and see if I get used to it and practice a few quick moves.

I do as i have no right foot other than an artificial one.

So it sits doing nothing and with standard pedals i use the left foot on the accelerator and the brake pedal.

 

Even if you have 2 feet it is worth trying. Maybe in a big empty car park. 

Dead easy if you are sitting OK / comfortably.  The thing is your left foot goes dead easy from accelerator to brake and back to accelerator. 

9 minutes ago, Jim2015 said:

I keep mine flat on the floor. Ours has a DSG and I believe some drivers use left foot braking which makes sense as the left foot is close by on the footrest. However my left foot isn't calibrated and when I tried it once I pressed too hard. Does anyone else use left foot braking?

I like your description of your left foot not being calibrated! Neither is mine, my right foot works both pedals.

 

For what to do while on CC, if it’s only a short time, suffer the discomfort of a twisted foot (I’m a size 11). On long motorway stretches, foot flat on the mat.

My Passat used to have the foot rest both sides. Shame Skoda didn't think to do this. 

42 minutes ago, Jmagee said:

My Passat used to have the foot rest both sides. Shame Skoda didn't think to do this. 

Yeah, my 12 plate Octavia 2 had both footrests. Surprised and disappointed the Mk4 doesn’t.

I have two modes:

a) When there is no traffic nearby and the road is wide: foot flat on the floor

b) When in traffic, since I do not trust the ACC to pull me up in time, or the Lane Assist or Autonomous Emergency Braking from doing something stupid: foot hovering over the pedals, ready to take action.

 

If you remember the off kilter pedal boxes of some italian cars from the 80's and early 90's, I sit in a similar position to that, left foot on the rest next to the centre console bit, then the gap between that and the break pedal is where my right foot goes, means I can stretch out and still be able to reach quickly to brakes.

 

I have a 42" inside leg, so if I can do it that way, anyone can I think.

On 21/07/2021 at 17:20, sneal said:

One for us drivers of RHD cars - when using cruise control what do you do with your right foot?

 

I'm finding that I tend to place the outside of my foot against the wheel arc but as there is no rest there my foot twists and becomes uncomfortable after a while. Moving my foot to be flat on the floor is far more relaxing but is further away from the throttle or brake pedal, and therefore feels that it's slower should I need to take a quick action. Not sure if it is made worse by the fact that I'm shoe size 11-12.

I use the speed limiter and have preferred this as an option since driving Volvos. Why the idiots at Skoda require I have to select this at each start is beyond me. Volvo also had a tap up/down in 5mph/5kph steps, again Skoda haven't included unless it's buried down in the basement levels of the options. It's such a good car ruined by rotten software.

21 minutes ago, byteme said:

I use the speed limiter and have preferred this as an option since driving Volvos. Why the idiots at Skoda require I have to select this at each start is beyond me. Volvo also had a tap up/down in 5mph/5kph steps, again Skoda haven't included unless it's buried down in the basement levels of the options. It's such a good car ruined by rotten software.

 

It has the up and down on mine, although it had to be enabled in an obscure menu.

54 minutes ago, byteme said:

Volvo also had a tap up/down in 5mph/5kph steps, again Skoda haven't included unless it's buried down in the basement levels of the options.

There is such a feature in our car too. It works by 1 or 10 km/h increments. I suppose in the UK that would be 1 and 5 mph.

You only get that on models with ACC, if you just have CC, then its 1Mph increments only.

37 minutes ago, Pagan-Image said:

You only get that on models with ACC, if you just have CC, then its 1Mph increments only.

That does sound pretty painful.

So when I am in an 80 km/h zone and it becomes a 60 zone near some shops I would need to press that button 20 times instead of 2? Wow!

I suppose what I would do instead is brake to close to the right speed and then do a resume and adjust the last few km/h.

And on exit from that zone back to 80 I would accelerate to close to 80 and do a resume and adjust.

 

But I wonder if you right? At the top of the page that I show above it mentions "By holding in steps of 10 km/h".

I know you cannot see the heading that preceded it, on the previous page, so I have included it below.

It says "Variant with cruise control". So it appears that both CC and ACC can adjust in the larger increments.

However the variant without cruise control says only "Increase limit" or "Reduce limit" by some unspecified amount.

However I would expect it, like the CC version,  to use the tap for 1 or hold for 5 mi/10 km method

Our Octy cruise control indexes in 5 mph increments - lever up or down - and 1mph increments - button for down and lever forwards for up. It can also be set to a chosen speed if the CC is off and the lever is in the ready position. Alternatively, if turned on from the 'off' position it holds the current speed. Whichever method used, the response is very fast. Also, the set speed is shown on the virtual speedo and even if the satnav is off, if the speed limit is exceeded once, the limit is shown and there is a 'bong' if it's exceeded again.

Edited 28 July, 20214 yr by Jim2015

Just been out in the loan which has ordinary CC (not ACC).

on the stack the incremental speed change in 1 mph with a single press up or down.

A press and hold increments it repeatedly by 1 mph until I let go - a quick way to get from, say, 50mph to 70 mph but less precise than counting the clicks…

On 21/07/2021 at 17:42, Jim2015 said:

I keep mine flat on the floor. Ours has a DSG and I believe some drivers use left foot braking which makes sense as the left foot is close by on the footrest. However my left foot isn't calibrated and when I tried it once I pressed too hard. Does anyone else use left foot braking?

 

Same here, my former 'clutch' foot doesn't know anything other than down to the floor, though to be fair it's always been a mistake on my part - thinking (or not) that I'm about to change gear!

 

Amazing how quick a motor can stop with un-calibrated 'left foot braking'.........

 

But that said, in ACC mode my right foot is normally hovering around the pedals to 'override' the all too regular bad calls made by the system.