Is it REALLY against the law to drive barefooted?
The full regulations have already been quoted, so just a couple brief, additional things… First the ‘sharp pebble caught in the pedal’ thing: this shouldn’t be a problem to habitual barefooters. First of all my feet are tough enough I run over gravel and rocks, and I pick brambles barefoot, I don’t flinch when I step on them so I wouldn’t flinch when I stepped on a rock either. You’d also have to wear shoes to get it lodged in there in the first place; if you are always barefoot no such sharp pebble would get stuck in your foot without you noticing (I do *notice* rocks and thorns, they’re just not hurting but it’s not like I don’t feel them at all) and then you’d jam it in there… only happens with shoe soles. About people getting cited for driving barefoot; unfortunately, this myth is so wide-spread in the US that even some law enforcement officers believe it. If you ever get cited for it, don’t just pay up at the county courthouse but let it come to court, if ‘driving barefoot’ is
