Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed

• netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  US stick driver here, equally disappointed in the picture.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it makes the whole meme funnier personally

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    • zaphod@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you step on those pedals at the same time the car is just going to stop, that’s all, nothing funny.

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      • WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Should’ve been gas and clutch for a nice big rev

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s part of the joke of the meme though.

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  • Ejh3k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are literally dozens of us!

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    • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t see you at the convention in Munich last year.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same.

    But at least my car is less likely to get stolen!

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    • xpinchx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As long as you don’t get car jacked 🙃 saw a headline a few months ago (a year ago?) That a young man got shot and killed because a car jacker couldn’t steal his car.

      A little unnerving in Chicago where car jackings are relatively frequent.

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• Hildegarde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They just added the caption. If the creator of this were capable of making the drawing, they would do something more with their life than memes.

  You can’t find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.

    Huh, I’m a little surprised it doesn’t have articles on left-foot braking for racing or brake torque launches for drag-racing.

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• Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think you drastically underestimate the number of gearheads in the States. Makes sense, given we have incredibly limited public transport. Currently have 3 manuals in my driveway.

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course, it a joke based on the fact that manual gearbox is, even to this day, the standard in Europe. I would be very surprise to meet someone with a driver license who can’t drive manual. It seems in the USA manual driving is a hobby for car enthusiast. But was do I know? I have never step foot on the new continent.

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    • Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Long live the manual transmission!

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• Lemonparty@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t driven a stick in over a decade and this meme upsets me.

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• elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Am US citizen, only drive manual transmissions. Anyone here who likes cars can drive a manual transmission, anyone who doesn’t like cars doesn’t give a shit about a manual transmission and just wants to get where they’re going.

  We invented cars, we’re allowed to decide how they evolve.

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  • jas0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We did?

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  • shallowAF@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Spray cheese - yes. Cars? No.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    American too. I don’t really like cars, but if I have to drive one, I would prefer one with a manual transmission. Unfortunately, my current car doesn’t have one because they don’t put them in affordable cars anymore.

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than fun

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe, but when I had a manual Toyota Corolla in the 90s, I felt like I was able to control the car so much better than any of the automatics I’ve had since.

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      • jas0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than fun control.

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• HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Geez you are pitiful

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• GreenMario@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah well it’s hard when you hear all your life if you mess up once you blow the transmission,.which is a several grand repair, nobody with a manual will ever let you practice on their car and well hey automatics are everywhere and don’t have that headache.

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  • Skelectus@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.

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    • WillFord27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve nearly shifted into 2nd gear from 4th before, the car was NOT happy, but there were no explosions. Granted, I didn’t fully let up the clutgh, but still. Mistakes happen.

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I shift from 4th into 2nd all the time when in city traffic before taking a turn, so I’m pretty confused why that would be an issue. Unless you wanted to shift up and brainfarted and shifted down instead.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    nobody with a manual will ever let you practice on their car

    I’m sorry that happened to you. IMO folks are way more precious about their manual transmissions than they need to be. I’ve taught several people to drive stick – including myself, in a brand-new car I drove home from the dealer in rush-hour stop-and-go traffic – and it’s never hurt anything. (That brand-new car still had its original clutch when it was sadly totaled by a falling tree, 100k miles later.)

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same, I learned on a brand new car, on my own, and taught a couple other people with it, and it still had the original clutch when the transmission linkage broke at 187k (basically totaled at that point, just pulling out enough to get to the transmission would have cost more than the car was worth at that point… Low end Chevy’s don’t hold much value as it turns out)

      The clutch is meant to slip, that’s literally how they work. As long as you aren’t riding it partially engaged for hundreds or thousands of miles, you probably won’t burn it out. If they were as delicate as people treated them, they wouldn’t have been the choice for racing for as long as they were after automatics hit the scene.

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You would really have to do it on purpose to blow up your transmission. These guys had to try pretty hard

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  • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not true, a money shift is very rare.

    If you were near me I would help you learn on any of my stick vehicles, it’s pretty easy one you have some practice.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, you just can’t without being a complete psychopath I guess force in a too wrong gear, the sync won’t be able to spin so fast that you can actually put in a ridiculous gear.

    And reverse is usually not synced so even harder.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, they just don’t want you to drive their car. Chance of a money shift is extremely low, and it doesn’t usually happen while learning. Money shifts really happen when you are trying to drive too fast, and you downshift more than 2 gears quickly. Most learners have trouble keeping the RPMs up high enough to money shift. I was perpetually shifting at 1.3k when learning and you can pretty much go from 6 to 2 without money shifting at those low revs.

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• vsh@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who needs a manual for daily commuting in 2023?

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• Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Third pedal is there tho

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  • synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The third pedal becomes invisible to the ignorant minds.

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