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Proper footwear while driving a car for safety
"The type of shoes you wear can significantly affect your driving safety."
The type of shoes you wear can significantly affect your driving safety. This largely has to do with the car’s pedals and how some shoes are not a good fit when operating those pedals. Here are some suggestions for the proper footwear while driving a car for your safety:
Driving Barefoot
You probably know that driving barefoot isn’t the safest choice.
When you’re used to driving in shoes, driving without them can feel uneasy, and that’s not what you want when operating a motor vehicle.
It requires you to put more pressure on the pedals than you usually do when wearing shoes which could affect your braking time, putting you at risk.
Repeated use of the clutch could end up being painful, causing cramps or other spasms in the foot and reducing the ability of the driver towards effective control of the vehicle.
Driving with Flip Flops
Any shoe that doesn’t secure to the heel in some way can cause interference with braking or accelerating.
These kinds of shoes can also slip off and become stuck under a pedal, affecting your ability to drive safely.
Flip-flops do not have adequate ankle support, resulting in the foot slipping off the pedal or missing the pedal altogether.
Flip flops slipping off the feet of the driver distracts the driver trying to locate the flip flop and putting it back on his foot.
Driving with High Heels
These can interfere with your ability to pivot your foot on your heel from the accelerator to the brake pedal—a key to safe driving.
And wearing high heels may cause you to hover your foot between the accelerator and brake, which not only causes fatigue but also eliminates the critical contact and pivot point needed for effective and safe reaction time.
High heels also have the added danger of the heel getting caught in the floor mat.
Ladies who like to wear high heels or platform shoes should rather change into these before going out of the vehicle.
Apart from the appropriate footwear when driving your footwear/ shoes must be comfortable enough for long driving. The most important consideration is to focus on the sole of the shoe. The sole should neither be too thick nor too thin.
And it should not be too soft or too flexible and it should have enough grips on the pedal to avoid slipping.
Most importantly it should be lightweight to enable easy movement - it is important not to hinder ankle movement in working various pedals. Ensure that the sole is not so wide that it might cause you to step on two pedals at the same time.
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