top quality shitpost here.
I daily a manual and this is a braindead take
Ill upvote since the amish feel if you don’t use a harness you are just letting a machine drive.
Manual transmission is the norm outside of the US
If you don’t push your vehicle with your own physical strength, you can only suggest/“point” a car
Fred Flintstone may have been an asshole…but he sure knew how to drive!
I like you :)
Look at this amateur with power steering, automatic choke, and an electric starter.
Plenty of motorycles in this world with none of those things. You’re telling me you need a roof, too? I used to ride mine to school in the snow and the rain. Uphill, both ways!
and doors
If you’ve never used a hand crank to turn the engine over, you’ve never really started a car.
I mean- technically this is 100% true and I’m on board
Pfft, amateur.
If you can’t manually adjust ignition timing and air:fuel ratios you can’t really drive a car.
Are we talking points, HEI, or injection? I don’t often have my laptop with me for the latter.
Early cars had controls for ignition timing, sometimes on the steering column.
Yes, they did! My grandfather’s Ford did. I thought it was throttle when I was young because it made the engine sound change!
Oh, we’re gatekeeping driving?
No, and if you learn manual, you’ll know what we mean!
Driving has to involve a clutch? I’m very confused by this. Manual driver btw.
Gatekeepers be keepin gates.
You are absolutely allowed to money shift, rev-match “slot” your gears, anything you like. If you can handle the stick you have my respect.
If you can’t shift gears faster than 120ms you’re inferior to the automatic already.
You think f1 drivers are fucking around with a clutch? Get off your horse and realize everyone and their half siblings have moved on.
This is from a crusty guy who taught many a fine lady how to drive the ol stick shift. That was such a great pickup line.
F1 doesn’t use torque converted automatics or CVTs. They use much faster transmissions.
I don’t see where that was stated at all, just automatic.
And DCTs are definitely automatics.
There are other forms of automatic besides torque-converter based systems, even in the 50’s.
Try buying a cheap used car with a DCT. Most are CVTs or old school regular autos (which are both apparently slow).
But if you can get one for a normal price, it’s kinda fine if you value convenience over control.
But I’ll probably not try an auto until my old golf dies.
I thought F1 used sequential transmissions.
I’m about as big a car enthusiast as a person can be. I’ve built everything, rock crawlers, drag cars, drift cars, and road race cars. I’ve had lowriders and lifted trucks. I’ve owned automatics, 4, 5, and 6 speed manuals, 3-speed column shift manuals, cvts, an electric car, and a push button shifted Chrysler imperial. I’ve driven cars, heavy machinery, boats, planes, and even a hovercraft one time.
While I love my manual cars, to say a person can’t drive until they learn to operate a manual is one of the dumbest opinions I’ve ever heard.
You know it was posted to “unpopular opinions”, yes?
It’s not that it’s unpopular, it’s that it’s objectively dumb.
Its actually not that unpopular of an opinion in car communities, it’s just a really stupid one held by stupid people.
And now it has been called a dumb opinion, too
Not an unpopular opinion, just gatekeeping.
yup. have driven rx7’s and vw bugs, it takes a certain set of skills but it’s nothing to be insulting about.
good luck with your clutch replacement dudes lol
If you’ve only ever operated fuel-injected vehicles then you don’t really know how to start a car
Thumps pedal three times, turns key with 10% throttle
