If you don’t drive your own car, the first thing you should do after getting in the car is to adjust the seat to get the best driving position. To adjust the seat, first adjust the backrest so that the seat back can tilt 100 to 120 degrees, which can reduce the pressure on the lumbar spine and make driving more comfortable.
Then adjust the headrest so that the position of the headrest should be in the middle of the back of the head, and the position where the back of the head touches the headrest should be slightly higher than eye level. When you are not leaning against the headrest, the distance between the headrest and your head should be as close as possible, about three fingers apart.
Finally, adjust the front and rear position of the seat. When holding the steering wheel with both hands at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock, the arms naturally bend 120 degrees. Press the brake pedal with your right foot and bend your knees slightly. If your right foot is fully extended when the brakes are pressed to the bottom, you should adjust the seat forward again. If your legs are too bent, you should adjust the seat backward.
The correct posture for driving with the right foot should be to step on the brake and step on the accelerator diagonally, which means we need to fix the heel of the right foot in front of the brake pedal and use the heel as the axis to switch between accelerator and brake . As shown in the picture below:
There is a scientific basis for placing the right foot in this way. The right heel is fixed in front of the brake, and it is a splayed foot when stepping on the accelerator. This is the natural position most people take when standing. Just imagine, if we fix the heel in front of the accelerator, it will become pigeon-toed when braking, resulting in inconvenient control.
In addition, if the right heel is fixed in front of the brake pedal, the direction of the braking force will be in a straight line with the brake pedal, so that maximum force can be exerted during emergency braking. At the same time, it can also avoid the tragedy of pressing the accelerator as the brake.
It should be noted that the heel of the right foot must be fixed on the floor and cannot be suspended in the air. This is also one of the reasons why the accelerator is used as a brake. In an automatic car, we basically have no use of our left foot, so we just need to step on the left pedal.