That's true.speedyj88 said:
Why must you hold the brake down before starting the engine?
Just curious: why is it required that you hold the brake pedal down before pushing the start engine button if BMW employs the new Start-Off Assistant feature that prevents your car from rolling backwards when starting it on an incline?
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Who said it was difficult? I was only asking why you needed to do it.JayK330 said:Wow, I didn't know pushing in the brake was such a difficult task.:jack:
Heh. This reminds me of a time I was driving my dad's Jeep Grand Cherokee and I was backing out of a parking space. I went to hit the brake to then switch it in drive but the brake wouldn't activate so I pushed it harder. :rofl:BiggerTwin said:While I never saw this in the media and never looked closely at an Audi 5000, I was told by someone who used to work for them that the gas and brake were both narrow vertical pedals while American cars had wide horizontal brake pedals and narrow vertical gas pedals. The similarity of the pedals may have contributed to less attentive driver's making mistakes.
Turns out my foot was on the gas and because my dad's jeep has that new 5.7L 330HP HEMI in it I went about 0-30 in reverse in about a second. Haha. Luckily, no one was behind me and I quickly hit the real brake. Heh.
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