Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult?
lime@feddit.nu 19 hours agoi 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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 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.
lime@feddit.nu 18 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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I mean, you say that, but I’ve driven a modern Porsche with all of those thing electric, and it’s absolutely still fun as hell. Sure, the steering isn’t quite as communicative as older models, but it’s still VERY good. They’ve done an incredible job with the feedback dynamics.