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I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (4 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

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