I SEEM to have flushed out yet another Auto Gear leg juggler. Richard Strother (Letters, March 31) has put his faith in a website and newspaper supplement.

The left leg braking of automatic geared cars may well be clever and some may consider it the best way of handling it but as I’ve said before, if the manufacturer agreed with it they would move the peddles apart with one on each side, only then would I consider it to be as safe as driving them as they should be driven at the present time.

The idea that HJ (Honest John) suggests that the time lapse in transferring one leg to the other when manoeuvring in confined spaces is dangerous may sound feasible but that would suggest that all manual geared cars were dangerous in the same circumstances, which doesn’t hold water.

It would also suggest that all manual gear drivers were more dangerous than the leg jugglers, not true of course.

My contention is that if a driver doesn’t possess the reactions quick enough to avoid accidents if and when required in such emergencies, they shouldn’t be behind the wheel of any motorised vehicle.

I wonder if Richard Strother knows what an escape route is – not to be confused with a rat run.

It’s something one is taught when taking the High Performance course and likely to save your life or someone you may otherwise kill.

With a clean licence of many years, no one is likely to change my style of driving from the way I’ve always done it.

L.A. O’Bee

Southampton.