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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Car won't start? Push it down a hill, avoid running over my foot, and climb in before it pulls away from you.

This is how I got to nursery school on at least one occasion I can remember.

I love manual transmission, and miss it badly. It was awesome getting out of both mud and snow. Plus, I felt like I was actually driving the car, not guiding it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where's my manual electric car?!

What do you mean electric motors have no transmissions?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do like manual transmissions but I will happily drive my electric car with no transmission.

If I want to go faster it just goes faster, and faster, and faster. No lag, just faster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could afford one 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're getting cheaper quickly now that the Chinese automakers are ramping up exports. Give it a couple more years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What do you mean electric motors have no transmissions?

They do though, it's just that most are single speed reduction boxes (unless you've got a Taycan).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Electric motion makes an electric trial motorcycle with a clutch!

Best I can do 🤷

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ahhh we had a different method - push it until you get to a decending road (don't know the right term in english lol) put in 2nd gear and start rolling while trying to start like maniac - worked every time lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Descending works, but “a downhill road” would be the more conversational way to say it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about.. a condescending road?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nah that’s when the road is like, “that’s some real good driving for a moron”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's basically what I described: down a hill. Although in my experience described above, it was not on a road.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So I didn't catch that, sorry I guess it's universal lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You tell your car explicitly where to go, when to start, when to stop, when to accelerate and when to slow down.
Sounds like actual driving to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can ride in a taxi and you won't be the driver even if the actual driver is patient enough to let you tell him explicitly when to start, stop, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wrong analogy. You command your car, not taxi driver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But that's my point - commanding isn't the same thing as driving. If you're the passenger in a taxi, you can be commanding but you're clearly not driving. If you have a car with an automatic transmission, you're still driving in most ways (you steer, brake, etc.) but you're no longer the driver of the transmission; you're just the commander of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you have a car with manual transmission then you have additional control over modes of the engine. But it's not the essence of driving, because you can have control over mode of the engine of washing machine, for example.
Key component of driving is control over route and speed of a car. And you still have it with automatic transmission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd go so far as to say you aren't the commander of the transmission. The programmer who designed the shifting algorithm controls it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but controlling the transmission gave me an extra layer of sensation, a more direct involvement in the process. It's a matter of degrees. Plus, there are levels of finesse one gains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Been able to push start an auto before just a bit fiddly holding in the override detent and jamming it in second