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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
I always hated this instruction. When instead I had it explained that one can think of it as fading the clutch out and fading the accelerator in (and that points in between are fine too) I immediately understood and never had an issue again. Admittedly I stalled a few times when switching to a different car whilst I learned its specific tolerances, but conceptually I was golden.
...now I drive an electric car.
Also it's never taught that you should lift the clutch to the bite point and keep it still until the car builds up some momentum. I think people do it so subconsciously that it doesn't occur to them that that's the key to moving from a standstill.
I love teaching my friends how to drive stick. The first lesson is how to make the idle car move by lifting the clutch foot so slow that you can feel the car move and keep going slowly until the foot is off the clutch pedal. It's about a 15 minute lesson and the driver understands what to do with the clutch. The gas is easy.
This wasn't taught to me either but this is the best thing for teaching others. I've explained this to a few people before that were struggling to learn and it made the process much easier.
Really depends on the amount of torque your car has at idle, in some you don't need to touch the gas pedal at all to set off.
Or how good the anti-stall system is, the car I learned in was basically impossible to stall by letting the clutch up too fast, it would just automatically fade in power.
I enjoy driving, so I drive a manual. People who don't enjoy driving, or who merely drive because there's no other alternative, should not drive a manual.
That being said, nobody should drive a tesla.
My father in law decided randomly one day I was going to learn to drive manual. So he started up the pickup truck, and said "it's easy to get started going down hill" as he demonstrated rolling down a steep hill. Then he u-turned, parked the truck at the bottom of that steep hill, turned off the engine got out and said "your turn". Dick.
My parents insisted I learn on a manual, and while I didn't appreciate it at the time, I do now.
The regional DMV office where I took my driving exam had the most notorious parallel parking setup in the state. It was two traffic cones next to a very large, 3 1/2 foot diameter log (representing the curb) and was on the side of a circular cul-de-sac. So not only did you have to account for the curvature, if you got too close to the "curb", you were gonna have a very bad day lol.
If you're wondering: I nailed it (they let you practice after hours which helped).
What does manual transmission have to do with parallel parking?
Nothing other than increasing the difficulty for a novice driver. Mostly it's me going on a tangent and reminiscing about defeating that fucking log lol.
From my experience it's a lot easier to drive slowly just woth the clutch instead of the gas pedam
To anyone wondering why some people prefer the control a stick offers over automatic, I tell them: it's like listening to Beethovens 5th over the radio vs ACTUALLY CONDUCTING the orchestra.
As someone who's never conducted an orchestra or driven a manual, this simile doesn't really help at all.
As someone who drives a manual, I'm going to go try and conduct an orchestra
It's raining out and the road your on starts going up a hill. Theres a lot of water on the road so you're not driving fast. An automatic sees your rpms dropping because you need more power to go up the hill. It doesn't know its raining. It downshifts to give you more power to get up the hill. You went from 50 mph at 1300rpms to 45 mph at 5000 rpms. All that power now going to your tires creates more opportunity for your wheels to loose traction in the rain and fishtail.
In a manual you put in a gear that keeps your rpms high enough to maintain speed but not 5000 rpms to "go faster". The power to the wheels stays exactly where you want it to be based on the road conditions. Replace with snow, sleet, etc etc.
Its like being a meteor instead of a satellite orbiting the earth
Lol volkswagen autostart
Slows down for speed bump.
Engine turns off.
Heard the manual vs automatic argument million times. I learned to drive using manual, my first few cars were all manuals and this is all I knew for a long time.
When we bought our first car together with my wife we got an automatic. She is a less confident driver, and wanted an automatic car. I dont mind it at all, got used to it and now I don't miss manual at all. She is a much safer driver, under stress or in a sticky situation the manual transmission is a an extra thing to worry about and I feel calmer knowing that she can fully concentrate on the road instead of shifting.
I think manual is great for experienced drivers, but automatic is so much safer for beginners and people like my wife.
i had a manual mustang cobra a long time ago and dealing with the clutch in stop and go traffic could get exhausting. my leg would actually start getting tired after a while.
Press the clutch with your left foot, slowly release it as you slowly press the accelerator with your right foot.
To be fair it is more complicated than that. You have to feel the car start to move, hear the revs react, adjust the rate at which you release the clutch and how much gas you give accordingly and for some vehicles/situations you even need to pause the release of the clutch for a moment to let the vehicle start to gain speed. It's all something you eventually get used to and can do without thinking but there is a significant frustrating hump to get over in the learning curve.
I feel like those who say they don't understand why people like driving manual are people who never got over that hump. Because once you get over it, it is a lot of fun. And even if you still prefer to drive automatic after that because of your personal preferences, you still get why some do like it.
My ex tried to teach me to drive stick on the way home from urgent care.. my urgent care. Because it was convenient for him at that time. He refused to teach me several times before then because it was inconvenient. (why yes, I did leave him decades ago over abuse, thanks for asking! Tho it was not the specific thing)
I don’t care if manual is superior in some irrelevant way; I refuse to learn now due to trauma. Pretty sure I looked just like this picture.
Meh, stick is simpler so if anything goes wrong it's easy to fix or less things to break. The only other reason is that it forces you to pay attention to your driving, so, if your into cars, it's more enjoyable to go for a drive.
Automatic is superior, especially now. You aren't missing much.
Thing is, it's not superior in any way, quite the opposite. Maybe things were different decades ago.
Or do as the little old lady next to me in a car park yesterday: push the accelerator until the little needle is at 6000 (because you need to get up at 6), put the car in reverse and slowly adjust your speed with the clutch.
Either Honda accords have a pretty good clutch, or she was on her 9th by the look of the car.
Update: it went something like this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VCNzvKvIRhk it's in Danish, but I think it's pretty self explanatory
"Press the clutch, release it slowly and accelerate." Bus enginge turns off
I feel like learning manual is easy if you already know how to drive. My newest car is a stick shift and I just started driving it. Took like a month to be comfortable, but I was able to drive it and get from point a to point b without being good at it. Really just first gear that's annoying.
Just get an automatic transmission instead. That might be my American perspective showing though. I know manual transmissions are more common in Europe (or at least I've heard), but I don't know if that's just driver preference or for some other reason (like cost).
Automatics had a bit of a bad reputation, for quite a while. They don't/didn't play well with our road layouts. E.g. they could be slow to downshift when climbing a hill, and kick when they did decide to play along. I believe they have improved a lot, but most people are used to manuals, and so more manuals are sold. This makes automatics more expensive and rarer.
I will say when I rented a car in Wales in the mid 2010s they had like literally 2 automatics and they were double the rate. It wasn't at all common there then.
A tip for this: the accelerator is less important, slowly release the clutch until you feel the car vibrating, then you can release the brakes and the car will not move, or start moving slowly, then you can start accelerating and releasing the rest of the clutch.
