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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On 27 Aug 2013 02:03:20 GMT, "John F. Eldredge"  wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:38:07 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Brian M. Scott"  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:40:19 -0500, David DeLaney   
   >>>  wrote in   
   >>>  in   
   >>> rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
   >>>   
   >>> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>> And he may well think that putting his brights on requires stepping on   
   >>>> a button on the floor. Remember those?   
   >>>   
   >>> I’d actually meant to include that and simply forgot.  I still think of   
   >>> that arrangement as natural, though I’ve never owned a car that had it.   
   >>>   
   >>> How about the parking brake *pedal*?   
   >>   
   >> My daily driver still has both!   
   >   
   >The last two cars I have owned, as well as the last few cars I have   
   >rented, all had a foot pedal to set the parking brake, and a hand-pulled   
   >cable to release the parking brake.  The most recent car that had an   
   >entirely hand-operated parking brake dated back to the 1970's.   
      
   And I have NEVER seen a foot-operated parking brake on a car.   
      
      
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