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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.
oldercanuck1 · 70-79, M
i started with a stick ,,, now an auto truck ,,,,
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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...
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@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.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@SW-User EV's are nothing more than a novelty as they were 100 years ago (they're nothing new and are as old as internal combustion itself); onboard chemical storage of electricity (batteries) wasn't practical then and still isn't practical now.
everready · 51-55, M
Not to mention, I have had to use the gear-box for braking when my brakes failed. You can't do that in an auto!
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@MethDozer nope; simple concept for mechanic/engineer and anyone who understands basic physics and gear ratios... which I am and do... 🙄
MethDozer · M
@wildbill83 Then you should know the smaller mass of the vehicle would help balance out the braking effect of the vehicle. The extra engine breaking in the bigger and higher compression engines would be going towards stopping the increased momentum from the increased mass of the vehicle itself. Just as the decreased engine size would be braking a greatly reduced gross vehicle weight on a smaller newer car. It's not much different than weight to power ratios for accelerating a vehicle.

You present it as all things equal, but they aren't. The vehicles have gotten smaller and lighter with the engines, which means the ability of the vehicle hasn't changed much. We don't compare bicycle brakes to motorcycle brakes either. You're making a similar comparison.
🍿 😁 this is great
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Agreed. I love the connection and sense of control with the engine. It is what defines driving for me.
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
tallpowerhouseblonde · 31-35, F
I agree with you.I live in England and much prefer a manual.I drive with my feet bare and that connects me to the car,I get feedback from the pedals.
i think you practise with your boyfriends stick
Lhayezee · 26-30, F
@Justsimple Don't be crude.
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I so agree. I drive a stick, too. I feel so much more in control of the car. And I AM.
Lostpoet · M
I never learned how to drive stick shift.
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jackson55 · M
Just part of making the car go forward.
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Bitting my tounge really hard on this one Gearbox 😂
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First type of car I was taught with....

 
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