# Driving in Flip-Flops
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [August 10, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375 "2011-08-10T16:40:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/21 "2011-08-10T19:12:19Z")
> [@97FormulaWS-6](#):
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> If I’m wearing Flip-Flops they come off and I drive barefoot.
I do this too.
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### Author:  [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/22 "2011-08-10T19:15:46Z")
I don’t own flip-flops.
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### Author:  [@sobo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sobo)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/23 "2011-08-10T19:21:24Z")
If you are a guy you shouldn’t own flip flops.
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### Author:  [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/24 "2011-08-10T19:34:50Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> Oh god. Here comes the anti-flip-flop debate from people who are too cool for it…
>
> My Jeep is very easy to drive in flip flops and I’ve never had any oops moments or instances that made me feel otherwise. However, I have owned cars that made me feel unsafe doing it. In which case I would just kick them off and drive barefoot. Problem solved.
Word, same here pretty much.
Any sports car? No
Anything else is ok as long as I feel safe doing it.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/25 "2011-08-10T19:42:14Z")
> [@Jack](#):
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> :word:
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> When you wear something on your feet (or anywhere for that matter) which is named after the annoying fucking noise it makes when you walk … but then you realize you’re making too much noise so you start to just slide your feet … you suck at life.
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> They should call them fapfapfapfaps.
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> I’ll go now and let you metros talk about your footwear in peace.
“Girl footwear” that is incredibly comfortable and useful. I play beach vBall 4 days a week. putting shoes on and off for that would be fucking retarded. Do I wear sneakers out or to the mall? No. just when the situation calls for it.
Plus : Fresh Tan feet \> Stinky pale feet.
But in the end, it’s only footwear. Get over it.
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### Author:  [@NYstanger](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NYstanger)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/26 "2011-08-10T20:38:39Z")
you mad?
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### Author:  [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/27 "2011-08-10T21:03:20Z")
> [@ultradriver10000](#):
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> Word, same here pretty much.
>
> Any sports car? No
>
> Anything else is ok as long as I feel safe doing it.
No sports car?!?!?! I LOVED driving my Firebird in bare feet or with just socks on; I had so much better feel of all 3 pedals and could wrap my toes around the pedals for more control than if I were in shoes.
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### Author:  [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2011, 11:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/28 "2011-08-10T23:48:07Z")
Driving in socks sounds like a ridiculously unsafe way to drive.
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### Author:  [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 4:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/29 "2011-08-11T04:32:23Z")
> [@Jack](#):
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> The only thing people should do when they’re wearing flip-flops is kill themselves.
THIS.
I perfer toe armor. Ever stub your toe? hurts a fuck ton less in shoes / boots. Dropped a can or a tool ? had your foot stepped on? toes stepped on?
Back of your heel stepped on by the dumb ass broad you brought to the store with you, who wont stop fucking texting, so all you want to do is walk her straight tword a fountain.
Flip flops, sandles, mandles, are gay and belong on the “fresh coast”
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/30 "2011-08-11T04:33:39Z")
> [@NYstanger](#):
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> you mad?
lol. How could I be mad with such comfortable feet?
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/31 "2011-08-11T05:09:27Z")
lol @ the sandal hate from the “I’m too manly for that” crew.
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### Author:  [@focusinprogress](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/focusinprogress)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/32 "2011-08-11T05:16:00Z")
If I’m headed somewhere wearing flip flops, I kick them off and drive barefoot.
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### Author:  [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/33 "2011-08-11T05:18:54Z")
A lot of Esprit guys drive barefoot, due to the pedalbox being smaller. Not me though…
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### Author:  [@GV1390](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GV1390)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/34 "2011-08-11T05:20:25Z")
Summer time If I have flip flops or boat shoes on they almost ALWAYS come off to drive barefoot, Just personal preference.
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### Author:  [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/35 "2011-08-11T05:29:33Z")
The only time I wear shoes in the summer is to work or when running. Most of the time it’s flippies or those adidas shower sandals; and I drive in them with no issues. :tup:
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/36 "2011-08-11T06:07:59Z")
> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> I can heel-toe all day longs in my rainbow flip flops
rainbows are the bomb…more or less the only flip flop i’ll wear
If I feel unsafe driving with them, I’ll just kick them off
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/37 "2011-08-11T06:11:28Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
>
> Oh god. Here comes the anti-flip-flop debate from people who are too cool for it…
>
> My Jeep is very easy to drive in flip flops and I’ve never had any oops moments or instances that made me feel otherwise. However, I have owned cars that made me feel unsafe doing it. In which case I would just kick them off and drive barefoot. Problem solved.
I’m not going to sit here and read through all this nonsense. I feel the same way as Paulo on this.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/38 "2011-08-11T06:13:42Z")
forgot to mention my fiancee drives manual cars (either my mazdaspeed or her civic) with some sort of sandal flip flop and never has an issue…I think she kicks them off depending on what pair they are though.
The incident in the OP is likely just a freak/one-off accident.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/39 "2011-08-11T06:17:54Z")
Everyone keeps saying driving barefoot is illegal, but are you sure? I’ve read the NYS VAT before and don’t remember seeing anything about a footwear requirement.
[http://web.archive.org/web/20030618105020/http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/driving.barefoot/driving\_barefoot.html](http://web.archive.org/web/20030618105020/http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/driving.barefoot/driving_barefoot.html)
> ```
> STATE OF NEW YORK
> DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
> EMPIRE STATE PLAZA
> ALBANY, NEW YORK 12228
>
> ```
> ```
> PATRICIA B. ADDUCI
> COMMISSIONER
> LEGAL DIVISION
> KATHY A. BENNETT NEAL W. SCHOEN
>
> ```
>
> DEPUTY COMMISSIONER & COUNSEL FIRST ASSISTANT COUNSEL
> ```
> June 17, 1994
>
> ```
> Mr. Jason R. Heimbaugh
> R.R. 1, Box 120
> Champaign, IL 61821
> Dear Mr. Heimbaugh:
> This is in response to your letter of May 27, 1994. You ask whether it is illegal to drive barefoot in New York State.
> Nothing in the Vehicle and Traffic Law or in the Commissioner’s Regulations prohibits barefooted driving in this State.
> I trust this information will assist you.
> Very truly yours,
> ```
> DEBORAH V. DUGAN
> Assistant Counsel
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@Skurge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skurge)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/driving-in-flip-flops/215375/40 "2011-08-11T06:20:54Z")
> [@Jack](#):
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> The only thing people should do when they’re wearing flip-flops is kill themselves.
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