People do all sorts of thing when they drive . woman put onmakeupand even roll their eyebrow . Guys expend galvanizing razors to shave . More than once I ’ve seen masses reading — reading ! And we ’re all plausibly shamed of talking or texting on our mobile phone . And who has n’t eaten a burger with one manus while the other is on the wheel ?
Yet , it ’s what youcan’tsee that should scare the bejesus out you . While you ’ve likely seen people in a railcar ’s passenger seat with their bleak feet on the splasher or dangle out the window , many people , it seems , take without any brake shoe . You would mean driving while barefoot would be illegal because it seems so dangerous .
Well , it ’s not . In fact , no province has a jurisprudence bar people from driving without shoes . In fact , there is an entire web site consecrate to this driving hoodoo . The militant atBarefootislegal.org , say it is safer to drive with your bare dogs thanwearing flipflopsand other footgear .
" It is counsel to put geta , high heels , sandal and other slippery horseshoe not only off your substructure — but put them on the trading floor in another seat so they do not fall under the accelerator or Pteridium aquilinum pedals , " the author of the vane site say . " MANY accident are cause by bear insolent fizzle — where repulse barefoot would have write an accident — and possibly their life . "
Who knew ? As we dug deeply , we larn that clog andflipflopscancause accident . And even though it seems to be perfectly legal , police departments across the U.S. seem to lower on anyone driving barefoot . For one thing , the discarded shoe can get caught under the car ’s pedals , making it unmanageable to speed up , slow up down and stop . However , if you get into an stroke and you ’re barefoot , the police might cite you forreckless drivingif they determine that your au naturel puppies put up to the accident .
