What is footwear suitable for driving?

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What is footwear suitable for driving? 

When you drive a car, will you think about footwear?
 I think most people are not thinking.
So let's think about relation between driving and footwear this time.

 
 To begin with, why is footwear limited in terms of driving ?
The reasons can be summarized into two broadly.
1. Because driving operation is affected
2. For safety
 Let's think about 1 first. Driving a car requires vision, hearing, etc., so-called five senses. The touch of the pedal in that, the feeling of touch sensed with the soles of the feet is  an important element.

Concretely, when stepping on the accelerator pedal, how much does the engine speed rise and how much does the car accelerate as you step on it? Likewise for the brake pedal, how much does the brakes go with the amount of time it is stepped on? Or how much is play of each pedal?
First of all, such information will be detected from the foot. Based on that, we are giving feedback about how to operate the pedals almost unconsciously each time.
In other words, your feet are ultra high performance sensors and adjustment systems themselves. Therefore, good footwear is an absolute and necessary requirement in order to keep the sensitivity and the fine adjustment ability to the highest state.

For 2, it is related to 1. If you can not feel the touch of the pedal, it will be directly connected to a traffic accident.There are countless accidents of this kind caused by footwear.

So, what kind of footwear is good?
Personally, we recommend the following.

· Low on the heel
· Thin soles, hard ones

As for heels, high heeled items, etc., there is a possibility of stepping off the pedal. A type that can not fix a heel like a sandal can also be a serious accident as the footwear will come off while driving.

 Regarding the thickness of the sole, information on the pedals is easy to use thick type footweart when you step on pedals . However,  wearing soft sole is tired easily, so be careful when driving long distances.


Finally, Let's think about barefoot!  At first glance, it's very good way to drive a car because of preeminent sensitivity, pedals do not get dirty.And it seems to be problematic. However,I don't reccommend about it.The biggest disadvantage is that there is a high possibility of being directly linked to a serious injury in bare feet when accident occurs. Bare legs are pretty dangerous, so let 's absolutely stop this!

Let's check about footwear once more with reference to the above. Are you trying to get on with sandals just because it's hot?. If an accident happened in that state, who will be responsible? Let's imagine a bit. Good driving is from clothes and footwear first! !