OT: "Mixed up the brake and accelerator"?!?

No, an automatic. I've never seen an auto like that before. It had a clumsy lever on the steering column, in line with the likes of the indicator and windscreen wiper sticks. Most autos in the UK have a proper shifter down on the floor where it should be.

It's horrid. My dad had a Citroen like that, f****ng impossible to drive. A gear lever should be on the floor, between the two front seats.

Why the hell do they make cars like that?! If a car can drive all four wheels, then just do so ALL THE TIME! There is absolutely no point whatsoever in only doing half of what the car is able to do. Then you encounter some slippy road, and have to wait for the stupid bloody electronics to realise it's slippy, then after a delay it engages the other wheels, by which time the other two have sunk and you're stuck.

Sounds like your subconscious is pretty thick. Landing on your arse when something is endangering you is not good.

And should be removed form the gene pool.

Both of which are useless in saving your life.

It's amazing women survive at all. I guess that's why men exist, to look after them.

It might carry a disease.

How clumsy are you? Two feet, two (or three) pedals. Not that difficult.

I see it all the time on the news, even though I rarely watch the news.

You need to move the word "stupid" between the words "more" and "people".

I know I do. I'm aware of what I'm doing. I'm aware the next day of what I did.

Except my friend didn't damage anything. It just depends on how good a driver you are, and he's a very good one. The pigs didn't think so when he got stopped for doing 130 in a 50 zone though.

What?

What? answer the question. When I panic, I do something, like run.

In which case freezing will kill you and is absolute the stupidest thing you could do.

I believe that's called a Darwin Award.

I don't.

Use two feet.

Exactly. its just the same as a manual. revs on the right foot, release the car on the left.

I had a 1999 Honda CRV (4WD) automatic. It had a column gearchange (great big ugly lever that looked like an overgrown indicator stalk). I was surprised to see it on any non-American car. I found it very difficult to use, since on a normal manual stick coming through the floor (which every other car I owned had), you push it all the way in one direction until it stops. But this had every single gear in one straight line, with nothing to stop you pushing it too far, apart from a mild click. And unlike a floor mounted auto where you can see the 123D etc next to the lever, this just displayed the gear on a small display on the dash (I think it was an LCD). It was lucky it was computer controlled (I assume) so you couldn't select 1st when going 70mph, because trying to drop from D to 3 often got me into 2 or 1. Trying to swap between D and R for a 3 point turn was almost impossible without pushing the lever too far and selecting an entirely different gear.

Strangely I had no problems driving a rental car in France (which drives on the right and I drive on the left in the UK). All the controls were the opposite way round. But I think being in another country I was already doing everything in mirror language, like driving on the other side and going round roundabouts the other way, so it seemed natural.

The Morris what? Is that a car for terrorists?

Is that what they call a dogleg? Where you get R instead of 1st?