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  • small annoyances like it shifting up when you know you need to slow down in a second to take a corner, and then it’s in the wrong gear and it has to shift down again when you need to accelerate out of the corner

    I mean, no modern automatic acts like this. It shifts up when you’re accelerating, shifts down when you’re decelerating. I guess if you’re a lead foot, it would make more difference. Or if you’re driving a race car. Not your typical road driving.






  • Try this: stand up, walk to the other side of the room and back

    I mean, I have spondylitic arthritis, but okay. (Luckily I got on the good meds again.)

    which steak do you think will turn out the most delicious?

    Ah but the question wasn’t quality, it was convenience.

    Even if you argue that after a while the less convenient becomes familiar, that doesn’t really mean it was more convenient, it was just not inconvenient for you. But I have to say even if you’re a seasoned manual driver, not having to shift every 25mph is arguably more convenient than having to, even if you’ve gotten used to it.

    People got used to climbing stairs, doesn’t mean we stopped using elevators.







  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyzI'll just take the bus
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    It’s weird to me that y’all don’t appreciate the convenience of advancing technology.

    It’s like going “only mentally disabled folks use microwaves, the rest of us light the wood stove and let it simmer for a half hour”

    Especially when Europe is known for its electric kettles, which are only recently becoming common in the US, who have traditionally used range-heated kettles.

    Shit… are you also all still on Nokia 3310s and connecting to the internet with SLIP/PPP too?


  • At some point in time it was argued that manual allowed finer control of engine efficiency to automatic which simply shifted at certain speeds or rpms that weren’t always ideal. So properly driving a manual meant you saved gas.

    I dare say in the decades since that argument began, automatic transmissions have gotten way better and reasonably as efficient as the average manual driver.

    Also, when manuals were more generally common, they were generally cheaper than automatics. I don’t know if that’s true anymore, but I think the average person will have a hard time finding a manual new (consumer grade) vehicle in any given dealership in the US these days – you’d have to get it ordered.