why no handbrake?

[Norm]

Handbrake for security and foot brake for the visuals. Once a car has pulled up behind me, though, there's no reason to hold the foot brake as that is just rude.

 

[gb155]

I'd have to say that a lack of clutch control is a bigger issue that lack of handbrake usage

 

[Ashaman42]

Had a woman next to me the other day waiting to pull out of a parking space. Rocking back and forth on the biting point. I was happy to let her our but she may as well have waited...we were at a level crossing..which was down...for a full minute or so.

So I was sat, handbrake on, in neutral, ignition off and she was abusing her clutch. Strange person.

 

[Hip Priest]

Well I stopped at a red light the other day, pulled on the handbrake, whacked it into neutral, turned off the ignition, took my belt off, climbed in the back and had a kip. So there.

 

[Arch]

I wonder how much of it is wishful thinking: A driver pulls up, and thinks "If I do the handbrake/neutral thing, chances are the traffic will move off, just as I've done it, and I'll have to get into gear, handbrake off etc, in a rush." Over time, it becomes a kind of superstition that maybe traffic is about to move off, and so it's not worth doing the handbrake, and that not using the handbrake will somehow make the traffic move...

It's something I admit to being a bit slack about sometimes. In the works vehicle the handbrake is often less effective than the drag from the electric motor anyway!