I inadvertently ending up watching YouTube videos of people teaching a partner or relative how to drive a manual car, and it reminded me how stupid it was to name it a clutch pedal.
You want to accelerate? Press the accelerator. You want to brake? Press the brake. That's easy.
The instructor doesn't need to say "Press the brake!", they just say "Brake!", ditto "Accelerate!".
But what on earth is "clutching"? If anything, the pedal does the exact opposite of that. What it does is "temporarily disconnect the engine from the gearbox so that you can change gears", which is unfortunately a bit of a mouthful and not something the instructor can bark at their student when the car is about to stall.
Any ideas for a better name? Preferable a verb that is also a noun (like 'brake') or a verb that can be turned into a noun by adding an -r at the end (like 'accelerate/r'). It would make teaching/learning to drive so much easier.