Learning to drive

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *9 and 3.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Came here to say that whoever wrote this is old, like me.

    The switch from 10/2 to 9/3 is because of airbags. If you’re doing it the old way, you’re more likely to have the airbag catch your hand and whack you right in the face with it.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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    • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      10 and 2 was always stupid. When I was young I got an opportunity to go to a racing school and that was one of the first things they talked about. If you mime driving a car, do you put your hands at 10 and 2? No, you’ll probably do 9 and 3. Better control, less going hand over hand.

      Also you should push the steering wheel with your outside hand, not pull it. Smoother input.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s mainly for better control of the vehicle. At 9 and 3, you can pull the steering wheel straight down to turn.

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought the risk was degloving.

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *7 and 5

    Less arm fatigue and safer with air bags.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With better control the airbags won't go off.

      9:30 and 2:30 is optimal and hands are to the side for an accident.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No it’s not.

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  • Lycist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thought they were teaching 7 and 4 now? Due to airbags I’d heard.

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      just go with 0 and 0 with a knee on the wheel.

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    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      7 and 4 isn’t even centered

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    • joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You also need to keep in mind thumb placement. If you have a vice grip on the steering wheel with your thumb and forefinger wrapping the wheel, you’ll get your thumbs ripped off/sprained in a crash.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No.

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Thumbs up on the wheel, not around it. Again, due to airbags.

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• KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.

  Funny sexism from the 50s.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes because dad criminal, mom not criminal

    Sweet sexism.

    ::: NOT EVERTHING IS FUCKING SEXISM, THE MEME WAS ABOUT DRUNK DADS

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Unfuckable comment

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s putting it a bit abrasively, but there’s a nugget of truth there.

    An anecdote: I saw some (drug?) commercial where the wife orders pizza because the Dad’s a bumbling idiot for even attempting to use the kitchen. Everything about the way it was presented just screamed… ‘50s sexism’? That’s a good way to put it.

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• MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sad that the default of the current world is “can you drive?”

  Mate, I can barely hold a conversation with people Ive worked with for 3+ years. How am I going to communicate via flashing lights to strangers, while driving a 1000kg hunk of metal at 50kph?

  I think I can contribute to society. (I haven’t been fired yet. So I must be doing something right) but must I be cut out of social weekend events, or anything after 6pm, JUST because i cant drive?

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well there’s always Uber and public transportation but both of those can be inconvenient at times. Someday I will get better at driving to get my own car though

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