As mentioned earlier, I’m 5’ tall. When DH and I were shopping for a mini-van many years ago, we tried the Dodge Caravan. The problem for me was that when the seat was adjusted as forward as it could go. so that my feet reached the pedals, every time I tried to lift my foot from the gas to the brake, my knee hit the steering column. I realized that little problem was going to inhibit me from using the break as often as I should – say, in stop-and-go traffic. It never occurred to me to put blocks on the pedals. Besides, who wants to put blocks on the pedals, and then have to take them off for other drivers, every time they want to drive a particular car?
We wound up with the Ford Windstar instead, a car which I absolutely hated. (I still have scary dreams about driving that car and not being able to see over the dashboard or not being able to stop, not matter how hard I press on the brake.)