Dumb Driving Question?!?

  Ok, here it is --

 - which foot is the gas pedal and which is the clutch in England?   (in the US - right foot is gas; left foot is clutch)

We are moving in a few mos and I am a bit worried about driving - I have been doing it the US for almost 20 years.  I will need to drive since we will be living in the countryside and I have 3 young children.  I have told my husband to get the safest car he can find me since I am concerned I will have an accident with the kids in the car.


I was told the pedals were the same as the US; but just recently I heard differently! 

Pedals are definitely the same as in the US!

If you don't have a car yet, why don't you buy an automatic? It does take the immediate stress off driving over here.

Confirming Balmerhon - yes - the peddles are the same (thank goodness). The stick is in the centre, so on your left rather than your right.  After the first couple of times putting you hand down on the wrong side, it ceases to be a problem     [I'm British - had to switch the other way the first time I drove a left-hand-drive stick shift!]

I was absolutely terrified of driving here in London when I got here. It's taken me about 9 months to get behind the wheel, but it's worth it! The drivers are crazy and impatient, the streets are impossibly narrow and even the street signs say "I don't bleedin' know!"... BUT it turns an hour long bus ride into a 20 minute quick stop. Getting used to shifting isn't the hardest part, I've found (although i still have a tendancy to shift into 3rd rather than 1st), but rather watching out for the left side of the car. I haven't clipped a car yet, but I have made a couple left-side curb-checks!

-=kat=-

I think the biggest adjustment from driving a different "nationality" car was not a British car...that was really easy to swap sides...it was in South Africa. The turn signal indicators were swapped with the windscreen wipers. Everytime we were about to turn left or right, the wipers went. LOL!

You'd think we would have adjusted after the first round of hysterical laughter, but noooooooo...it happened every dang time! Just could NOT get it to sink in!

Yes force of habit is a hard thing to break

I did the right hand kerb clip here in the US if it makes you feel any better Katatonic.