Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult?

• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Overall (and this is from a lifelong manual driver), I go much more by feel than I do any particular number on the tach, under normal driving circumstances.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i can imagine. i’ve mostly had automatics, but when i was looking for my first car one of the candidates was an old saab that only had little indicators on the speedometer for where to shift. in that situation i imagine muscle memory is created pretty quickly.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s some of that, but you really do get a feel for the car, where it likes to be, how it likes to be treated/driven, where its limits are, and so on. As others have said: it absolutely does help you forge a more detailed perception of what your car is doing, and where the limits really are.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        oh i know, i learned to drive on manual since most cars are manual here, i just haven’t owned one myself.

        that said, with electric power-steering and throttle-by-wire, there’s no feel to get. it’s all just dead, no matter how fun the clutch is.

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• Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Indeed.

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