You guys have to end it

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to drive stick in one of the most dense cities and worst traffic on the planet. My left calf muscle is noticeably larger than my right. Manual is enjoyable and freeing, but at this point I prefer an automatic in urban areas with heavy traffic. The volume knob shifter is still weird though.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I live in a city famous for it’s bad traffic, but prefer driving a manual anyway (when driving a car, at least – actual first place goes to riding my bicycle).

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, but when it takes an hour to drive 4 kms, it gets old pretty quick.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We should also get rid of starter motors. Who needs them? We can just hand crank the car to start it, like real men did back in the day.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I love when it backfires and accidentally breaks your arm! So manly!!!

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• bier@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a tip for people that don’t drive automatic transmission, if you ever try it, put it in R and really floor it. The R stands for racing mode!

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Laughs in Eaton 18

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• blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The driving school I went to would fail people that used the "handbrake start" on a hill.

  And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

    Huh, that’s interesting because I was tought to do the opposite. In practice, I do whichever feels right, usually mirrors but I’ve noticed in pickups I’d rather just look back

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• LeonenTheDK@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hate the knob. I can’t decide if that or the Nissan “orb of motion” as Garbage Time put it is my least favourite. I miss my manual car, but I’m on the electric train now, as computery as it gets.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ours has a stick configuration. Fellow Frankie supporter

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Handbrake start? Pffft… what a noob.

  It’s called the parking brake and it’s for parking. You have the pedal for when you’re driving. You can use that while leaving from a hill, it’s really not that difficult, you just hop from the brake pedal to the biting point on the clutch.

  I mean it’d be sort of a bitch on the clutch if it’s like a 40 degree hill and it’s a rental and it’s the first time you’re even moving it at all and you’ve no idea of where the biting point is, but you should never be in a position where that’s the very first time you drive a specific car. And after having driven a car once, you ought to know the biting point.

  Thus, “handbrake start”? Noob shit.

  • 3rd gen (former) taxi driver

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  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For real! Who uses the handbreak apart from actually parking somewhere? Even then it’s not required, though I prefer it that way.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well the most use we ever got out of parking brakes was when driving front wheel drive cars in the winter so you can lock your back tires so you can slide around the snowy corners.

      God I miss that now.

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  • dkc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bought a new car with a manual transmission this year. It has a cool feature called “hill start assist”. Basically for the first 3 seconds I won’t roll backwards. It’s been nice.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah sound’s decent enough.

      I haven’t driven new cars since like 2019 so I’m a bit behind and not aware of the most recent developments

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No thanks. I switched to automatic shortly after I moved to Reading where I found in all the stop start traffic I was constantly dancing the clutch fandango and heading for having a left leg like a tree trunk.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I actually like the volume knob shifter. The buttons ones I can live without.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Joke is that it is an automatic

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    • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If an automatic is good enough for the 70 Series Land Cruiser, it is good enough for me.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Handbrake start is only if you sucked at driving a manual ;-)

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Depends on how steep the hill is and how precise you need to be with your position. Parallel parking in San Francisco almost requires the handbrake.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can use one foot for the gas and brake at the same time. I’ve drove manuals for over 20 years. Including split shift commercial trucks that didn’t have hand brakes.

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• knobpolisher@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i like automatics for easier to crank the driveshaft

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• devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But what about semi auto/manual transmission like DCT (dual clutch transmission) or sequential transmission ?

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• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about those of us who use our triptronic transmission? I manually shift down constantly to take advantage of engine braking to make my brakes last longer. I used to ride a motorcycle so it made sense to me. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumatic

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This but unironically.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my uncle learned driving with a manual and he said it scared the shit out of him because anytime he went up a hill hed start going backwards trying to get to the next gear 😭

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• dkc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought a new 2024 vehicle last year with a manual transmission. This will be the last manual I ever own. I don’t expect them to be around by the next time I get a car.

  I’ve enjoyed driving stick since I was a teenager. It still makes my commute more enjoyable. A good rev matched downshift still makes me smile. I’m going to miss the experience when it finally comes to an end, but hopefully I can keep it up another 20 years.

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• griff@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will continue to steadfastly drive only with my disease transmission

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So glad I change gears to walk up hill

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