Wow, that is different. Our driver’s ed teachers went out of their way to stress that the emergency brake is actually a parking brake, and not to be used otherwise unless you really had no other brakes working at all.
I used to do hand-over-hand turning on the couple of cars I owned without rack-and-pinion steering, but typically I’d install a Brody knob on those cars anyway.
But that’s a good way to flunk the test, too.
As for user habit, yeah, that’s a tough factor to eliminate, given that the basic User Interface of cars hasn’t changed much since the Ford Model A (accelerator pedal and brake pedal: right foot; clutch pedal: left foot; hands turning circular steering wheel; hand-operated gearshift in center console or steering column; fully automatic ignition advance, electric starter). Other than the differences between automatics and stick shifts, and the disappearance of the manual choke in the 1970s, if you could drive a car from the 1930s, you could drive a car from today.
