You might need to fix your car.

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Look at your car beneath the steering wheel. In some cars you might see that along with the break and gas pedals there is a third petal furthest from the central axis of the car. If this is the case your car has a serious design defect that you should address as soon as possible. This is done in several steps.

1: remove the third petal.
2: seal the hole in the cabin where it was.
3: Remove the defective transmission.
4: With the assistance of a sledge hammer, hydraulic press, recycling plant, dynamite or some combination there-of destroy the defective transmission so it can no longer adversely effect vehicles.
5: Install a proper functioning transmission such as the one described here.

Professional assistance may be required in all steps save four. In any case in doing so you are helping rid the world of a dangerous atavism, the product of automotive junk DNA which makes cars not work as good as they should.