I Can Drive a Stick Shift

In Britain this isn't particularly remarkable.

Automatics I suppose must be fine for long straight roads but in the real world in civilisation...

...well it's like comparing Baby's First Hammer with a proper tool kit.

I think like a lot of things in the modern world (ok automatics aren't exactly new, but still... they're more common than they used to be), we're so happy to sacrifice convenience for experience.

Driving around a busy, hilly town is a pain...but I think you feel much more connected to your car with a manual gearbox.

SW-User

As we move to all electric vehicles though they will be a historic anacdote.

You'll be the last generation to remember them. You'll be telling your grandkids about manual gearboxes and how even by then how you used to have to actually steer the car yourself.

Lhayezee · 26-30, F

@SW-User It's not that so much as the plan is to generate more electricity from gas because it's way cleaner than coal or oil, and cheaper, and fills the gap at least until they spent enough subsidising chinese companies to build new nuclear power stations etc.

So they burn the case, make the electricity, then send the electricity to your house using cables - which means a lot is lost in transmission.

Whereas, for a gas cooker/boiler, the energy is transmitted to your house in a lossless form (assuming no holes in the pipe :P ), and you get virtually all of that turned into heat energy. It's far more efficient to burn a fuel at the time you need its heat or light, rather than to turn it into something else which then has to be converted again. Simple physics. And if even a music student can work that out then you have to wonder...

SW-User

@Lhayezee yes it is a primary not secondary energy source. Using it to produce electricity I always thought wasteful. We needed back then to get back into to nuclear power game. Which we led in the 60s but have lost our to others now.