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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (1 child)

When I drive, I am one with my vehicle! I have the gear stick up my ass and twerk to change gears, like a MAN!

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (57 children)

    And of course all shit electric cars are all automatic. It's part of the NWO agenda. They want to force us all into electric, automatic cars, Over my dead body! A car that does not produce smelly fumes when driving is not a real car. What I am supposed to smell when walking in the city? Air? Fucking dumb. On top of that they make no sound! There's nothing to tune up to make my car sound like a racing machine. How I'm supposed to let everyone know I have a small dick if I can't rev my engine all the time? Not to mention electric cars don't emit CO2 so I can't lock myself in a garage with the engine running and kill myself when I realize that no one is impressed by my car and my dick is still tiny. Absurd!

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (39 children)

    I've literally seen people post that they'd consider going electric if only it had an engine sound. Seriously, people who are old enough to have a drivers license want their car to go wroom wroom.

    I get it. It's the same reason all cars have a steering wheel, despite it being the most dangerous part of the interior. Joysticks just don't give the same feel as when the captain steers the boat over the seven seas.

    Wroom wroom, steer steer, wroooom, change gear while turning, push pedal, wroom wroom.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Try sitting in traffic for 2 hours with a stick, moving 10 feet at a time, and we can talk about how much you love manual

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    Cars aren't about driving. You want to drive? Go to the track.
    Cars are about getting from point A to point B. Bring on full automation please!

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (30 children)

    Or the car will be like "You're creeping forward with your driver's door open? I'm going to slam in to park without even asking first then all my dash lights will be going full xmas mode while I beep incessantly. Because fuck you, that's why."

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago (29 children)

    "Oh no a slight bump in the road. Better shout about it and slam the brakes lmao"

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (28 children)

    If I'm at a t-intersection with a car parked on the side of the road in front, I'll start turning, car thinks I'm about to t-bone someone, red lights and alarms everywhere. Scares the fucking shit out of me. The first time it happened I slammed the brakes on and fortunately didn't get rear-ended.

    That system has never done anything but cause me to almost have an accident and to turn it off is buried away in the settings each time I start the car. And the lane keeping assist is so dumb at understanding how people take an apex on corners, or dealing with the faded lines. "Give me the fucking wheel back!" tug LURCH "Fuck!"

    It's like learning to drive with my hyper-anxious mother in the passenger seat all over again, flipping out and unexpectedly trying to intervine over nothing she thought was something.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    I had a car with push button start and a CVT. After putting the first 50 miles on the car, the brake light switch died. Nissan, in their ultimate wisdom, used the brake light switch to tell the computer if you are pressing the brake when starting the car. Well, no brake light switch, no starting the engine. Had to get it towed back to the dealership to get fixed.

    I now have a real key and a manual transmission.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I actually was a real advocate for gears, then I drove my wife's new car for some time. Modern automatic isn't only comfortable, it's actually more (fuel) efficient, especially in the city. Now I'm an automatic guy. And - the circle of life - my daughter, looking for her first car this year: "No, I want gears!" Now she's got gears. In a car that weighs less than my phone, but hey, what do I old 🥔 potato know.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Manual transmission is also a great anti-theft device, since most kids don't know how to drive it.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I drive manual, it's great for my ADHD haha keeps me from fucking around inside my car in traffic.

    That being said, the person who made this needs to calm down. It's not that serious.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (34 children)

    That's an American problem. In Europe nearly everyone knows how to drive manually.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    "EMBRACE THE COMPLEXITY OF MANUAL TRANSMISSION

    • CARS are not just about driving, they're about mastering the ART of machinery!
    • Want to feel alive on a steep hill? Forget simplicity, EMBRACE the handbrake juggle and the dance of the clutch pedal!
    • "I could simply shift to D, but where's the thrill in that?" - A call to arms by the Connoisseurs of Complexity.
    • DEFEND your right to a gearbox that requires three limbs and a keen sense of timing to operate!

    CELEBRATE MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS (These are the cryptic contraptions deciphered only by the Worthy)

    ZIGZAG MAZE? - Challenge accepted! VOLUME KNOB? - Twist and shout your way through the gears! ???????? - Only the true driver knows!

    "Please engage the starter motor." - "Certainly, after I adjust the choke and check the distributor!" "I fear no hill start, for I have the power of the clutch and the arcane knowledge of the gearbox!"

    Join the ranks of those who drive not for convenience, but for the pure, unadulterated challenge."

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does anybody have the version of this about roads, intersections and such? I've been trying to find it but don't really know what to search

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't worry, AI transmission works most of the time (but every now and then it may hallucinate on the highway...)

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Real men use steam. What is with your prissy internal combustion engines? Shovel coal like a real driver.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    As someone studying tech, yes please, give me the dummest most rudimentary car with no computer or servos. I don't want general motors to gather my biometrics or a script kiddy to disable my steering. Dumb technology is best always. Fuck that android auto bs or whatever abomination the manufacturer adds. Just want a speaker with an aux cord so I can listen to my flacs

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (18 children)

    I love the idea of a sound system that is just an aux cord to a speaker

    If I ever win the lottery, I'm hiring a 50 people like you to build an incredibly basic production car together. Make it barely or technically meet the modern technology standards to be road legal in all 50 states, but use the simplest mechanical solution to everything a car needs to do. I assume a lot of systems would have to be installed as a "backup" to the electrical version, but I'd want to build it to be able to function perfectly with all the computers disconnected. Probably ship it with instructions phrased as warnings of what not to do.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Surely the volume knob isn't a real gear stick, right?

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Here's a thought, get a car made in the same decade. Your experience on budget automatic from 2001 doesn't represent modern cars.

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Fuck if I dont miss bump-starting my old ford falcon.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm still perplexed by my grandfather driving around in a manual with a beer and a cigarette. Did the WWII generation have a third hand?

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Real men use rocks to fight." says the man to another man with a gun.

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