• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    USA citizen having no clue about the existence of manual gear-box in vehicles, probably.

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      They just added the caption. If the creator of this were capable of making the drawing, they would do something more with their life than memes.

      You can’t find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.

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      Yeah well it’s hard when you hear all your life if you mess up once you blow the transmission,.which is a several grand repair, nobody with a manual will ever let you practice on their car and well hey automatics are everywhere and don’t have that headache.

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        They may have exaggerated the risk of a money shift a tiny bit. Stalling is easy, but blowing the car up has to be hard.

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          I’ve nearly shifted into 2nd gear from 4th before, the car was NOT happy, but there were no explosions. Granted, I didn’t fully let up the clutch, but still. Mistakes happen.

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        nobody with a manual will ever let you practice on their car

        I’m sorry that happened to you. IMO folks are way more precious about their manual transmissions than they need to be. I’ve taught several people to drive stick – including myself, in a brand-new car I drove home from the dealer in rush-hour stop-and-go traffic – and it’s never hurt anything. (That brand-new car still had its original clutch when it was sadly totaled by a falling tree, 100k miles later.)

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        That’s not true, a money shift is very rare.

        If you were near me I would help you learn on any of my stick vehicles, it’s pretty easy one you have some practice.

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        Nah, they just don’t want you to drive their car. Chance of a money shift is extremely low, and it doesn’t usually happen while learning. Money shifts really happen when you are trying to drive too fast, and you downshift more than 2 gears quickly. Most learners have trouble keeping the RPMs up high enough to money shift. I was perpetually shifting at 1.3k when learning and you can pretty much go from 6 to 2 without money shifting at those low revs.

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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        Nah, you just can’t without being a complete psychopath I guess force in a too wrong gear, the sync won’t be able to spin so fast that you can actually put in a ridiculous gear.

        And reverse is usually not synced so even harder.