danja
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I thought it was pretty straight forward but ok. What are you going to do if when you go to take off and something doesn't work quite right? Your clutch slips a little more than normal, the car in front stalls, you stall? Your not in a position where you are ready to react to something going wrong
You make it sound like I drive without thinking. If the car in front stalls or stops, I can either let clutch slip a bit to hold the car without accelerating, or I can put the clutch back in and get on the brakes if I need to. This happens frequently. For the record I have stalled my current car exactly once, because I let the clutch out without putting it into neutral while I had my foot on the brake. Incidentally, had I done the same with the handbrake on instead I think it's quite likely I would have gone into the back of the car in front!
I don't particularly see the relevance of this however - a fault may develop regardless of how the clutch is used. I could say to you "What if your handbrake cable snaps? Then what are you going to do when you need to hill start? Aren't you putting all your eggs in one basket?".
I drive all over Sydney using this method - have been for years - and Sydney drivers are not known for being saintly or predictable, however I am yet to experience any hairy situations related to how I choose to motivate the car from standing. Your preconceptions about my ability to react to unexpected situations simply because of how I operate the car are incorrect.
I guess because its never happened to you its must have never happened.
You're talking about the "out of control bus coming at you from behind?" scenario? I'm not denying this can or does happen, nor saying it's not worth being prepared for. I will however say that unless you sit there with your hand on the handbrake, ready to take it off at a moments notice, I seriously doubt you'll have a quicker reaction time than I do having only to move my feet 15cm to get moving.
Oh and have a read of this if you think i'm the only one who does it.
"[VIC] Waiting At Lights"
I know you aren't the only one who does it.
You seem to think that people who don't subscribe to your way of doing things must automatically be inferior drivers? You sound like you have good reasons for driving the way you do, as do I. You have irrational fears about the amount of wear that not using the handbrake puts on your clutch, then subjective rationales about why your method is "safer" than others. Why don't you keep on doing what you're doing and I'll do the same eh?