Barefoot, was RE: Katrina

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

In my experience (I have size 13s :) I get a better feel with shoes. When I 
drive barefoot, I can only use the ball of my foot just below the toes, but 
with a shoe, I can use just about any part that will hit the pedals.

I would think tho, that driving with cheap flip flops would be a problem. 
I've tried in the past and have myself experienced the problem of getting 
the flip flop behind the pedal with my foot on top of it. Kind of hard to do 
a quick pedal switch when that happens. And this is why I don't drive with 
those things. I don't even wear them at all, now. Just shoes and my 
wonderful Birkenstocks.

On 9/7/05, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 1:14:45 pm 09/07/05 Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:
> >
> > > > passenger) and lean up and throw it in park.
> > > > Then later on I got bitched at by both the
> > > > cops and the FD for being barefoot. (shrug)
> > >
> > > FYI: Contrary to popular belief, none of the 50 US States
> > > have a law against
> > > barefoot driving.
> 
> I drive barefoot all the time, you can't complain about the "pedal feel",
> that's for sure, and I have no idea why there's this concept that it's
> dangerous/illegal.
> 
> Cathy, admittedly a bit of a flower child
> 
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Mike
'86 red 16v (Red 5)