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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm suddenly reminded of some ai-death clock site I saw recently. It predicted my death on May 13st.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You'll die of 3st

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Daddy needs his coffee.

Seriously, the automatic is so much better for using a truck as a tool. I still drive a stick right now and I'm lucky I miss rush hour most days because we start and end early, one job site.

I'd never choose a manual for dealing with taking tools and materials around the Metro while the assholes I'm trying to service cut me off in stop and go traffic.

And IMO we need to start racing EVs, leave combustion for the 20th century old timer events

oshit I have been bamboozled by a shitpost

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Bought a new car last fall and looked everywhere for a manual, they are indeed getting rare in the US. Ended up with a Jeep Gladiator sport because it's a convertible 4x4 with a stick shift and so far the driving experience has been nice. You can tell Stellantis cheaps out on some of the plastic trim stuff and we'll see just how reliable it is after a few years. Would be sweet if Toyota would make a convertible or T-top 4runner with a stick shift in the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Manuals are definitely niche now and mainly in sporty cars (Civic SI, Type R, BRZ, Supra, etc).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always had a manual car. I love them. That is until I ended up dating a younger woman and we moved in together. Several years later the manual turned into the second car only I drove. That got sold and we now have two cars she can drive.

One day I might teach her how to drive manual. We live in a really flat area with no major hills, so it shouldn't be a problem. One day maybe,

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I always drive manual but my husband likes automatic. My kids learned on his car but my penultimate daughter drives mine to school now. I dunno, shifting seems easy to learn once you know how to drive in general - I learned it because everyone else was drunk one night so I had to drive home, when I was a teenager, and the drunk kid's car was manual.

ETA: I let the school kids use the car and got myself an e-bike because their commute loop is much longer than mine. I have an enjoyable ride in to work. But tell them to baby the car because it may be my last gas-powered car and I will miss the stick shift. Have not had an automatic transmission car for 30 years now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I “joke” I am gonna teach my son how to drive a manual just in time for electric cars to render them entirely obsolete…

but at least he’ll be prepared if the zombie apocalypse happens in the next 10-15 years…

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I drive manual every day, ~~except when I ride my bike instead of driving.~~

Edit for accuracy, my bike is manual too lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Your bike has automatic transmission?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps it has no transmission, you know, like in the good old times.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No thanks. I switched to automatic shortly after I moved to Reading where I found in all the stop start traffic I was constantly dancing the clutch fandango and heading for having a left leg like a tree trunk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I own a 2020 Subaru WRXSTI manual and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

It’s been difficult to find manual transmisssions for a couple of decades here in the US. That ship has sailed.

While most of my life I vowed my kids would learn manual, I gave up on that idea because

  • manual transmission cars are rare and disappearing
  • automatics now are more fuel efficient
  • CVT are reliable and even more efficient
  • EVs don’t shift

My kids started driving in a world of automatics and will soon be in a world with no transmissions

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

cvts are reliable

Now THAT'S a statement made by the utterly deranged

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think he is confusing CVT with the toyota eCVT which is quite different and is actually reliable

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

EVs don't shift

I know there's no reason for them to, but a small part of me wishes there was. Something so satisfying about being good at managing gears

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Had a manual 2016 Mazda 3. Took a bit to find it with all the options I wanted but it was available at the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Isn't the civic si series all manual?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

I bought a civic in 2006 and it took 6 weeks to get one. A manual would have taken much longer

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