That’s to limit your speed in reverse, don’t want to go 60 mph backwards
Anon learns about cars
Submitted 1 month ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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vrek@programming.dev 1 month ago
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Technically the car is powered by the movement of the exhaust fumes… Just not in the way that OOP thinks, I would presume
Mika@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Technically it’s also powered the way he thinks, but the impact of it is minimal.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Probably fake, but if it’s true, people don’t know what they don’t know.
To a whole lot of people mechanical devices border on magic. The gas goes in the hole, you push on the pedal and the car moves. That’s literally all they know. They don’t have any idea how an internal combustion engine works, much less an electric motor. They’ve spent their time learning things that are more important to them.
I’d hazard a guess that, apart from Bill Gates, the top billionaires are clueless regarding this stuff.
Hell, many race car drivers don’t know much about it, they just know how the car feels.
If you know the four-stroke engine cycle--intake, compression, ignition, exhaust--, you’re way ahead of 95% of people. Add to that how a camshaft controls valve timing and you might as well be a mechanical genius.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Yeah but there’s a difference between not knowing exactly how a car works and thinking that the exhaust is thrust. You can work that out by just observing a car, clearly they do not have enough exhaust velocity for it to achieve thrust, that should be inherently obvious.
Thinking the exhaust is what makes the car go is like thinking that the actors live inside your television. Is the thought of an eight-year-old.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Some people got an idea of something when they were very young and never revised that idea because they didn’t get in touch with it again.
I believed until I was like 8 or 9 or even older that the noise coming from a bottle with hot liquid in it was caused by a worm inside the bottle.
An adult told me this as a joke, which I took for a fact and never came in contact with the subject again, consciously.
Exhaust fumes accelerating a car feels very much similar. Kids logic
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Born to be a pilot. Cursed to be a 4chan poster.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OP confusing cars and jets.
jets are the fart-powered vehicle.
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
When you drive in reverse, smoke goes back in.
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Climate change solved
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Just put a load of air conditioners outside.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Ahh, it’s lovely to be driving a bicycle
Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 1 month ago
we all laughing but bro would write the best childrens books
M137@lemmy.today 1 month ago
And a bike is driven by the air your legs push back, the wheels are only there to slow you down otherwise you’d accelerate infinitely.
rustyfish@piefed.world 1 month ago
Pretty sure Olympic runners are just very good at farting 🤨
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I mean, look at his head. He got dropped so hard I’m surprised he can type!
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
So 99% sure this is fake and never happened, but I’ve seen a lot of these “I’m really stupid” posts on 4chan. I imagine anon just wants to be part of a joke, even if they’re the one being laughed at.
dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You can tell, because it’s greentext
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The really homosexual ones definitely happened though
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Well, from what I’ve heard, the chud stuff on 4chan was once satire and people who can’t read satire came in. So maybe it’s the same here, real stupidity got mixed with the jokes.