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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

laughs in electric drivetrain

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Voltage up.

Voltage down.

Simple. No additional headache.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"Press the clutch, release it slowly and accelerate." Bus enginge turns off

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In France they're only starting to get traction. They just weren't a thing until say ten or fifteen years ago. Top of the line cars had the option, but it was very rare. It's a matter of culture. We have an automatic now (wife is more comfortable with it), it handles gear changes shittily but it appeases my left leg, so we're even.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It’s not just the clutch. Rev up the engine too.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Now you killed it while lurching forward! Exciting!

While learning, don't touch the gas. Learn how to take the car out of neutral and into first using only the clutch. Then the whole process makes a lot more sense for when you need to do it faster.

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