Every car has a clutch. Not all of them are manual.
And what car did you learn in?
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most automatics use a torque converter instead of a clutch.
DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Torque converters (at least nowadays) have a clutch
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Show me you’re old without telling me you’re old.
Anivia@feddit.org 2 months ago
My car doesn’t even have multiple gears, let alone a clutch
Single speed reduction transmission :)
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My HEV Corolla does not
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What is this, some kind of poll to get the average age of Lemmy?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember when it was absurd to pay $10 for a banana.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on
notarobot@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Right. Most of you are from the US. Argentinian here, everybody drives manual. I even wanted to buy an automatic last time but my mechanic was like " Don’t even look at it. There is none in this city who can fix those. It might be a great value, but if it breaks, its done for"
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
99% of people in my country…
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
My grandfather had a rule for this kids, and my mom passed it down to me.
You can’t have a license until you can:
- Check and fill all the vehicle fluids
- Perform an oil change
- Change a tire
- Drive a manual transmission
- Change belts and hoses
I learned on a stick. I even did some learning on my uncle’s beetle with a broken clutch (they were reasonable optional on the OG Bug). And I have not been behind of the wheel of one since. Still glad I learned all that stuff.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now, dismantle this car and put it back together, you have one hour!
Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh, these “let’s get people to reveal their password reset question” Facebook campaigns again…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
My first car was a 1972 Toyota Corolla! I fondly remember driving my first pet, Max, on good ol’ Pine Lane, where I grew up, to go see my mother Joan Hart, who retook her maiden name after divorcing my father!
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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obinice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?
I think a more interesting question would be:
How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 months ago
I’m currently learning to drive in a car without a clutch (an EV)
wieson@feddit.org 2 months ago
Not me, but I learned to drive a 1967 tractor before driving a car, and you have to manually preheat the glowplug.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Had a dirtbike with one, that counts right?
gnu@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I had an old Series era Landrover as a paddock basher when I was a kid, that had a manual choke. It also had a backup crank handle for starting the engine which I had to use occasionally as I was using starter batteries which had been retired from usage in the family cars, a gearbox with no synchro on first/second, and the foot brake didn’t work. Would recommend, I definitely had fun.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 months ago
Lawnmowers count? lol
ellohir@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Here in Spain it’s estimated that automatic transmission is between 30 and 50% of cars. No official numbers have been released.
So most people have learnt with a clutch. Definitely everyone who has had their license for more than 10 years.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Amazing shitpost.
People really went directly to the manual vs automatic debate without realizing it has nothing to do with that.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Flying over my head. what does it have to do with?
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Evey car has a clutch, including automatic. It is so the engine can keep turning without the wheels spinning.
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 months ago
Common password recovery question…
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is still the standard way here. Automatic is something we still leave to those for who a gear is too complicated.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
And EVs.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I don’t know if electric vehicles have one but other than them all cars have clutches, whether manual or automatic.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wet vs dry… Emmmmm
And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I still drive one WITH a clutch. Manuals are pretty cool.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lot of people searching “clutch” right now
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
if we do our test on a manual we’re allowed to drive automatics too. But not the other way round. So i learned on a manual. I now drive an electric without any gears to switch, much less a clutch (but still have a classic mini too)
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Learned it from the beginning. It was my first car. Wanna say it was a late 80s or very early 90s really basic Ford Mustang that my aunt sold to my parents for me to use for like $200 bucks. I loved it, but not even a year later on my way to high school a van flying down the road rear ended me while I was trying to make a left turn waiting for traffic to clear… I haven’t had stick shift since.
Here’s a pic of around what it looked like so you can see it was a very basic car back then or this model was super basic haha.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 2 months ago
1979 Datsun 210. Eventually sold the thing for five cartons of cigarettes.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I owned the B-210 Honey Bee. Great car, zippy.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who learned driving using a manual transmission car, automatic transmission is much better for city driving, I hated having to be careful with the clutch in stop and go city traffic, my left leg would get so sore after a while, plus I’ve stalled the engine more than once by letting the clutch go too fast.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I finally went over to the dark side because of bostons horrendous stop and go traffic
teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Learned with and still using stick.
I think it was a Renault Megane. Hopeless car. Left it outside in the cold one night. Every bit of wiring had shorted and if i turned on the wipers, the lights would flicker and the radio turned on.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sounds like your car was possessed
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Renault of that era are complet garbage, but still sold a tonne. This badly damaged their reputation and they took a long time to recover.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1982 SAAB 900. No turbo, no sunroof. No frills. Still a fun car to drive
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Holy crap! My wife’s Solara has 368,000 miles on it and I thought that was a lot.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a total of 6 SAABs. I was a delivery driver that did long distance deliveries, mostly donated organs. None of them died before 1.2 million miles. The closest I ever got to the 2 million mile club was my 1986 SAAB 900 SPG that I got to a whopping 1,854,35*,*** miles. I don’t remember the small digits. There are still SAABs out there that are joining that club, and they haven’t made one since 2011
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1.5 million???
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a total of 6 SAABs. I was a delivery driver that did long distance deliveries, mostly donated organs. None of them died before 1.2 million miles. The closest I ever got to the 2 million mile club was my 1986 SAAB 900 SPG that I got to a whopping 1,854,35*,*** miles. I don’t remember the small digits. There are still SAABs out there that are joining that club, and they haven’t made one since 2011
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I was 15 in the 90s, every adult in the family, and adult friends of the family, said “You’re 15? Let’s go drive for an hour or two!” I’m pretty sure that, legally, a parent was supposed to be with me, but I guess any random adult was close enough.
I just added up 14 different vehicles I “learned on,” including an old pickup with “three on the tree”, a Corvette, a 280z turbo, a 68 Chevelle, an International Scout. The rest were boring vehicles. If I remember correctly, 9 were manuals.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Suzuki Samurai FTW
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. Still have two stick cars. They’re not dead yet.
Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 2 months ago
Learned on a 2000s era VW Beetle, and then a Mazda B2500 FW/2WD. Last manual I owned was a 2015 Honda Fit. Now both our vehicles are Automatic AWD.
I did get to drive a little 4cyl manual SEAT on holiday in Madeira which was an adventure. 36% grade roads, hairpin turns – like 150cc mario kart around there
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I believe the better question here is “clutch pedal” as automatic cars still have a clutch, you just aren’t manually booting it.
But yes I did learn to drive stick in a 2002 Mazda Protege.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1993 Isuzu rodeo.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Learned to drive manual on a 1981 BMW 320i. All of my cars are still manual to this day. 1999 Toyota Solara, 1988 Toyota Corolla GTS, 2003 Toyota MR2 Spyder and 2020 Hyundai Veloster N. But mostly I ride my bike, which is also a manual.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 months ago
OG Mini. So, yes, had a manual clutch. Now, 40-something years later I’m driving an automatic for the first time because they don’t make the car I wanted at the spec. I wanted in a manual.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 2 months ago
I learned to drive in a big ass truck, but I did recently get my first manual transmission car. It's not that hard to learn I don't think.
aarRJaay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most people not in the US. We just call it ‘driving’
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s slowly starting to become a lost art though, there’s definitely more and more automatics around, starting with all electric cars.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Automatics have clutches too, they are operated, as expected, automatic. A car without a clutch has just one gear.
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Good
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not just automatics anymore, but also
snf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The change is coming for you guys as well. I’ve travelled to Colombia on a regular basis over the past 20 years or so, and transmisión mecánica has gone from nearly ubiquitous to almost exclusively an econobox option. Maybe performance cars as well I guess? Wouldn’t know about those