There has to be a specific reason why most cars all have similar shapes to their pedals.
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There’s a lot of people repeating plausible reasons but it’s far more simple than any of that. Cars used to have mixed layouts of throttle, brake, clutch, gears, retard, mixture, etc. Largely they were placed as practically as they could be while having a simple linkage, but nearly every car was different.
The first car with the layout we’re familiar with now was the Cadillac Type 53, it was a low volume car and had little influence. However the Austin 7, one of the fist truly high volume cars copied the layout and kind of set the standard for everyone who followed because people liked it.
Tl;dr: It’s the fist layout that was well received in a mass production car and it was copied up to modern day.
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