[RKDinOKC]

Just brake "normally" and don't worry about it.

If people behind you are freaking out and locking up their brakes trying to keep from rear ending you...Well, you are braking too late and too hard.

If people are honking and going around you, or if in your rear view mirror you see them throwing their hands up (gesturing) and it looks like they are road raging, you are braking too early and too easy.

And yeah, the brake pedal is not a foot rest.