How a car with a manual transmission looks to anyone under the age of 30
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Got em!
But they took all the skill & fun out of it. Bah Humbug!
I think it'll be a few more years before we get the definitive article or short story on automatics vs manuals.
In fact, it'd likely be in the National Geographic and cover the entire worlds driving population.
In fact, it'd likely be in the National Geographic and cover the entire worlds driving population.
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It is kind of like a manual choke knob to get a carburetor car running in the winter. My first four cars had manual chokes. My son, who I taught to drive a stick, wouldn’t know what the choke was for or what it does. Time marches forward.
Didn’t the original Ford model Tee’s have four pedals? Two that worked the transmission.
Didn’t the original Ford model Tee’s have four pedals? Two that worked the transmission.
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What they really want most of all is an app on their phones which will drive the car.
Get out of here w/that BS. Your position is as if the child has nothing more to learn after their grown adults, & anything they didn't was the parents fault, which couldn't be further from the truth. Parents are supposed to teach all of our children the same stuff?
Add in the fact that some folks who are disabled cannot shift a manual transmission anymore. Little lone teach their children. You obviously have the RESOURCES & HEALTH to do that. However, based on your own ideology If there's anything your kids haven't learned after 18 yrs old you can blame yourself. Way to derail the humor thread there by blaming parents/people for something they may not have the luxury of doing.
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My best-starting car in extreme cold was a '79 Mazda GLC with a manual choke. Worked great.
That's stupid funny part of this meme. They couldn't even find a MT to do this with!!But that’s an automatic!
So sensitive.
No one under 100 can do this… kids today.
I can!
Meh. It’s like dinosaur noises in movies. Nobody knows the difference. A T-Rex could’ve meowed like a kitten for all we know
Don't worry, the people who do want to steal it know how to drive manual.
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Might want to raise the threshold to 47. I can tell you I've brought this up in meetings and while a person can achieve a SVP title and have done so 15 years ago, they can't drive a stick. They've even been gone from tractors (tractor/trailer) for at least I dunno 10 years. Owner operators still prefer them, but not fleets. Fleets will even want to squeeze the extra 0.3-0.5 mpg that the autos achieve, even getting very close to 7.
Many kids are not exposed to these things early on, so shifting and manual transmissions or anything mechanical is foreign to them, including driving.
I grew up working on a farm. By 11 years old I had already field driven vehicles, driven farm equipment on the street, and learned the basics, so driving a car on the street was just the next step. My younger sister on the other hand had never even driven the lawn mower, so the first time my parents took her out driving with her permit they had to start from square one.
Henry's Model T did not have a shifter or a gas pedal. Now there is an anti-theft control layout
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I don't see anything wrong with that statement. I also 100% blame the parents. Can't expect your kids to know about things they are never exposed to. I taught one of my millennial friends to drive stick a few weeks ago, he did fine. He never drove anything besides an automatic Toyota Corolla as he wasn't ever exposed to anything else by his family, but wanted to learn.