I still hate to this day one of my parents cars. The gear shift is on the side of the radio and the radio controls(what isn’t touch screen) are underneath.

Daddy needs his coffee.

Seriously, the automatic is so much better for using a truck as a tool. I still drive a stick right now and I'm lucky I miss rush hour most days because we start and end early, one job site.

I'd never choose a manual for dealing with taking tools and materials around the Metro while the assholes I'm trying to service cut me off in stop and go traffic.

And IMO we need to start racing EVs, leave combustion for the 20th century old timer events

oshit I have been bamboozled by a shitpost

As a classically trained driver I’ve found automatics make people drive worse because they have to think less. And they already barely think.

Laughs in Allison 18 spd

• Wanted to Start on a Steep Hill? We had a Tool for that: it was Called "Flooring the Gas while letting go off the Clutch"

IT AIN'T NO GOOD MORNIN' WITHOUT THE SMELL OF NICELY BURNED CLUTCH

US: predominantly automatic transmission, low speed limits

Germany: predominantly manual transmission, higher speed limits and no limits on around half of autobahns (motorways)

US road deaths per capita twice of Germany.

Draw your own conclusions.

My Volkswagen flashes a message when I put the key in the ignition; "Depress clutch to start"

So I tell it that the majority of Yanks don't know how to use it and it starts every time.

I have never owned a car with an automatic transmission, and I am proud of that fact

When car companies start charging for heated seats.. that’s why I stop buying brand new cars and go for older ones

You guys do realize this is supposed to be a parody of boomer bullshit arguments right?

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

edit my dad also taught me how to switch gears without the clutch without raping the gearbox. all about giving it a bit of gas while it's off gear to match the rpm's. it's rather trivial once you get the feel for it, but you need to understand the rpm range the gears can do obvs and not downshift while on high rpm or something like that

Oh good I got here before the lemmy fuck cars brigade showed up