Talk:Automobile pedal

I've added a section called either foot to use for breaking, this article is about the layout and which foot can be used to operate each of these. I also added the parking break pedal which was missing. Jon 15:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Are pedals in British cars on the reverse side? 99.20.66.116 (talk) 23:27, 9 June 2011 (UTC)


 * No, 99.20.66.116, the pedals are the same: right pedal is gas, left pedal is clutch (if it's a manual transmission) and center/left pedal is brake. The article says so in the second sentence, "The arrangement is the same for both right- and left-hand traffic." --Bigpeteb (talk) 03:48, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

History?
Is there any information on how the current arrangements of pedals came to be? Old cars like the Model T had rather different pedals. What was involved in getting different manufacturers to standardise on the pedals to such a degree that we now take the modern operation for granted? CodeCat (talk) 14:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Top Gear (2002 TV series) covered this in episode S10E08. From what I recall them saying, manufacturers pretty much did whatever they thought made sense; there was no "standardization", until everyone suddenly converged on one layout. Cadillac Type 53 states that it was the first car to use the modern layout, which was then copied by the Austin 7; this information appears to be based on the Top Gear episode, and doesn't cite any other sources. Bigpeteb (talk) 14:18, 8 August 2013 (UTC)