Comment on Physicists vs Normal People

imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, that’s the anti-theft device.

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Only works in America though

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    • rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Unfortunately driving manual is fading away everywhere

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      • easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        First it was the butter churn, then the washboard, and now they’ve come for our clutches

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      • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        BMW was even pushing customers to stop ordering manuals a few years back, so they could just focus on automatics.

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      • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        As someone who prefers not to drive where possible, and in a country where manual for regular cars is not common, why do people think manual is so great?

        Gives you some more control on your gears, sure. But heck, the only time I ever, ever need it is going up or down very steep hills - for which there are low gear settings on most cars which you can switch on for those moments.

        For most people, it’s just a massive waste of time to learn, when an engineered solution already exists and presumably doesn’t add significant enough cost to be worth not having it (I assume, because of the lack of demand, here).

        Is it just, for the “love of driving”? Okay fair enough, but that’s your hobby then, not sure why we need to like it also

        In any case, do enlighten me because I don’t get it haha

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  • marius@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, it’s just a foot rest

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• BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it’s an automatic and that’s a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)

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  • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ahh you know I think you’re right

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• Trollception@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That looks like a dead pedal (foot rest), not a clutch pedal. Normally only the gas pedal has a full pedal face on it. A clutch pedal normally looks like a brake pedal.

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• SpermHowitzer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you use it wrong enough then “break” becomes the proper spelling.

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