What the fuck is a “classically trained driver”?
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As a classically trained driver I’ve found automatics make people drive worse because they have to think less. And they already barely think.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He was taught by the same institute that taught Beethoven to drift.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Didn’t go to one of those lousy postmodern driving schools I think
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like Robert Wells or Bill Nye.
thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mom took him to a big office building parking lot on a Sunday when it was quiet. At least that’s how this classically trained driver learned.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
like going to a prestigious school for drivers?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve actually observed the opposite. Automatics leave more brain cells to focus on traffic.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They use them to focus on their phones, not the road
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s just a type of driver though. They come in all transmissions.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you sing an aria by Mozart or something when you drive? But anyway, in my experience driving manual makes people more distracted because they have to think about gears and the clutch and stuff. Sure, a competent driver will not have any difficulty with that, but there’s an awful lot of them out there that don’t quite fall into that category.
MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You must not know how to drive a manual. When you know how to drive one, you don’t think about it. You just do it. You feel connected to the car and connected to the act of driving. Automatics absolutely allow people to go on autopilot and they focus on anything but driving: stuffing their face with food, browsing lemmy, texting, talking on their phone on speaker while holding it up to their mouth for some fucking reason even though it would be easier and better sound quality to just hold it up to their ear like phones were designed to be used, or you know, just use the fucking hands free phone calling that’s built into every fucking car that was made in the last decade and a half and included in every cheap ass aftermarket stereo system available on the planet
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve driven manual for over 30 years. Back in the day automatic transmissions were slow, clunky and inefficient. When I first tried modern one, I was instantly converted. Like, I also don’t want to manually adjust rotation speed on my washing machine, why would I do it in the car? Driving electric takes it to a whole new level. It just frees up mind share for concentrating on traffic. There’s no guarantee people will actually do that, of course. And if you think that things that are subconscious don’t take up mind share, you don’t know much about how the brain works. And if you think drivers on manual are less distracted, I have news for you too. I guess you live in the US, where driving manual is a choice. Here it’s mainly in cheaper, older cars which are driven by people who don’t much care about cars or driving.
MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re wrong
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No I let my exhaust do the singing. It’s like playing a really simple pipe organ.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Now think about how much worse they would drive if they had to switch their concentration from the road to the transmission.
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Only just noticed Your username. For a moment I thought You were serious.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I was serious I’d say no human is sane enough to drive.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Stupid is as stupid does. A significant portion of trucking accidents involve the truck driver missing a cue because they were mid gear change.
While it is good to have a person learn to drive stick, it is really hard to get people to learn how to drive if they have zero interest in actually learning how to be a driver, no matter what transmission.
I personally like dual clutch transmissions and daily’ed a car to 175k miles with one, yet I went out of my way to find a manual version of my current car.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I mean, I’ve driven only automatics my whole life, with the odd exception of a friend’s ATV or whatnot, but I know when and how to use an e brake (and/or dual foot the brake pedal and gas pedal) to start a car on an incline, when said car has an automatic transmission…
You’re not gonna uninvent automatic transmissions.
Assuming you’re American (I doubt a non American would name themselves ‘Boomer Humor’), what you could do is mandate people completely retest, written and driving tests, for their liscenses every 5 years, then every 2 years after some age cutoff (60? 65?) then every single year after another age cutoff (70? 75?)… instead of just assuming that because they passed the test once in their life, all their skills and knowledge are perfect and up to date for the rest of their lives.
Most people think they are much better drivers than they actually are, so lets actually reality check them on that.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Manual occupies their phone hand. How is someone supposed to heart content so the algorithm gives them more of it!
Using the PRiNDle opens one up for so many activities.
archonet@lemy.lol 1 month ago
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