Bumped a 14 year old zombie for that?
FWIW, my drivers ed car (circa 1998) had only an additional brake pedal. The instructor used it once, because I was coasting through an imaginary pedestrian crossing area before a stop sign.
I remember the instructor telling a story about how that exact car had been nearly totalled by a student who was turning onto a narrow bridge with concrete barriers on each side. She wasn’t fully in control, and he was trying desperately to reach her steering wheel. In his words, she was quite overweight and “filled the area between her and the steering wheel, and I couldn’t get my hands on it.” They hit the concrete barrier, but the car was new enough that the damage was worth fixing.