You guys have to end it

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m suddenly reminded of some ai-death clock site I saw recently. It predicted my death on May 13st.

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’ll die of 3st

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Laughs in Eaton 18

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• j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  When car companies start charging for heated seats… that’s why I stop buying brand new cars and go for older ones

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• searchingforporpoise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bought a new car last fall and looked everywhere for a manual, they are indeed getting rare in the US. Ended up with a Jeep Gladiator sport because it’s a convertible 4x4 with a stick shift and so far the driving experience has been nice. You can tell Stellantis cheaps out on some of the plastic trim stuff and we’ll see just how reliable it is after a few years. Would be sweet if Toyota would make a convertible or T-top 4runner with a stick shift in the US.

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  • Sharpiemarker@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Manuals are definitely niche now and mainly in sporty cars (Civic SI/R, BRZ, Supra, etc).

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  • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Jeeps are the bottom of the barrel for reliability and build quality, so godspeed on your journeys.

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    • CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      buying a jeep just means you have at least 2 cars because one of them will be in the shop more often than not.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you also pay people to whip you? It seems like you like being hurt.

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• imvii@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve always had a manual car. I love them. That is until I ended up dating a younger woman and we moved in together. Several years later the manual turned into the second car only I drove. That got sold and we now have two cars she can drive.

  One day I might teach her how to drive manual. We live in a really flat area with no major hills, so it shouldn’t be a problem. One day maybe,

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I always drive manual but my husband likes automatic. My kids learned on his car but my penultimate daughter drives mine to school now. I dunno, shifting seems easy to learn once you know how to drive in general - I learned it because everyone else was drink one night so I had to drive home, when I was a teenager, and the drunk kid’s car was manual.

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    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      penultimate daughter

      Does that sounds a bit ominous to anyone else? :D

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I joked I was gonna teach my son how to drive a manual just in time for electric cars to render them entirely obsolete…

      but at least he’ll be prepared if the zombie apocalypse happens in the next 10-15 years…

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    • ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As a Brit, I still find it staggering that some places allow you to drive a manual without having learned how to. It’s two separate licences over here.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Handbrake start? Pffft… what a noob.

  It’s called the parking brake and it’s for parking. You have the pedal for when you’re driving. You can use that while leaving from a hill, it’s really not that difficult, you just hop from the brake pedal to the biting point on the clutch.

  I mean it’d be sort of a bitch on the clutch if it’s like a 40 degree hill and it’s a rental and it’s the first time you’re even moving it at all and you’ve no idea of where the biting point is, but you should never be in a position where that’s the very first time you drive a specific car. And after having driven a car once, you ought to know the biting point.

  Thus, “handbrake start”? Noob shit.

  • 3rd gen (former) taxi driver

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  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For real! Who uses the handbreak apart from actually parking somewhere? Even then it’s not required, though I prefer it that way.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well the most use we ever got out of parking brakes was when driving front wheel drive cars in the winter so you can lock your back tires so you can slide around the snowy corners.

      God I miss that now.

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  • dkc@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I bought a new car with a manual transmission this year. It has a cool feature called “hill start assist”. Basically for the first 3 seconds I won’t roll backwards. It’s been nice.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah sound’s decent enough.

      I haven’t driven new cars since like 2019 so I’m a bit behind and not aware of the most recent developments

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I own a 2020 Subaru WRXSTI manual and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.

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• scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I used to drive stick in one of the most dense cities and worst traffic on the planet. My left calf muscle is noticeably larger than my right. Manual is enjoyable and freeing, but at this point I prefer an automatic in urban areas with heavy traffic. The volume knob shifter is still weird though.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I live in a city famous for it’s bad traffic, but prefer driving a manual anyway (when driving a car, at least – actual first place goes to riding my bicycle).

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, but when it takes an hour to drive 4 kms, it gets old pretty quick.

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• blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The driving school I went to would fail people that used the "handbrake start" on a hill.

  And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And also fail people that tried to drive backwards by looking back instead of using the mirrors.

    Huh, that’s interesting because I was tought to do the opposite. In practice, I do whichever feels right, usually mirrors but I’ve noticed in pickups I’d rather just look back

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No thanks. I switched to automatic shortly after I moved to Reading where I found in all the stop start traffic I was constantly dancing the clutch fandango and heading for having a left leg like a tree trunk.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I actually like the volume knob shifter. The buttons ones I can live without.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Joke is that it is an automatic

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    • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If an automatic is good enough for the 70 Series Land Cruiser, it is good enough for me.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Handbrake start is only if you sucked at driving a manual ;-)

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on how steep the hill is and how precise you need to be with your position. Parallel parking in San Francisco almost requires the handbrake.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can use one foot for the gas and brake at the same time. I’ve drove manuals for over 20 years. Including split shift commercial trucks that didn’t have hand brakes.

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• knobpolisher@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i like automatics for easier to crank the driveshaft

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• devilish666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But what about semi auto/manual transmission like DCT (dual clutch transmission) or sequential transmission ?

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• Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What about those of us who use our triptronic transmission? I manually shift down constantly to take advantage of engine braking to make my brakes last longer. I used to ride a motorcycle so it made sense to me. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manumatic

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• griff@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will continue to steadfastly drive only with my disease transmission

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• DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So glad I change gears to walk up hill

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