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[M] forget self-driving cars; bring back the stick shift
From the «also, Millenials don't steal them» department:
Title: Forget Self-Driving Cars. Bring Back the Stick Shift. Author: VATSAL G. THAKKAR Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:51:47 -0400 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/o...er=rss&emc=rss Podcast Download URL: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019...r-Sub-moth.jpg Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive. |
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[M] forget self-driving cars; bring back the stick shift
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:21:39 -0400, RS Wood >
wrote: >Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive. Not only that, but less coordinated... Years ago, keys were left in a stick shift vehicle, and someone tried to steal it, but couldn't get it started. |
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JAB > writes:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:21:39 -0400, RS Wood > > wrote: > >>Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive. > > Not only that, but less coordinated... Years ago, keys were left in > > a stick shift vehicle, and someone tried to steal it, but couldn't > > get it started. There's a good security video of some juvenile dirtbag hopping into a lambourghini/equivalent to steal it, realizing it's a stick shift, and giving up. (You know you're dealing with dip****s when you discover they think sports cars are going to have an automatic transmission). |
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:14:32 -0400, RS Wood >
wrote: >realizing it's a stick shift, and >giving up. Around here, driver's education will teach people how to drive stick shift, but after driver's ed is over. Student has to spend extra hours, and furnish a stick shift automobile. In other words, the kid already has a license...but more class/drive time would be required....fat chance a kid wants this... |
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Hi!
On 26.03.2019 01:14, RS Wood wrote: > (You know you're dealing with dip****s when you discover they think > sports cars are going to have an automatic transmission). Well. What about flappy paddle gearboxes? They're not *that* rare anymore. Yours, Ermel. -- Nach 10 Jahren oder so zurück im Usenet. Schmeckt wie früher. |
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:19:29 +0100, Erik Meltzer >
wrote: >Well. What about flappy paddle gearboxes? An automatic, by any other name, is still an automatic. |
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Hi!
On 26.03.2019 15:48, JAB wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:19:29 +0100, Erik Meltzer > > wrote: >> Well. What about flappy paddle gearboxes? > > An automatic, by any other name, is still an automatic. Which is my point. Yours, Ermel. -- Nach 10 Jahren oder so zurück im Usenet. Schmeckt wie früher. |
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[M] forget self-driving cars; bring back the stick shift
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:55:29 +0100, Erik Meltzer >
wrote: >> An automatic, by any other name, is still an automatic. > >Which is my point. That was William Shakespeare's point.... "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" |
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Followup set to rec.autos.driving
On 03/24/2019 11:21 PM, RS Wood wrote: > Technology meant to save us from distraction is making us less attentive. It's getting more and more difficult to find vehicles with stick shifts. I bought a new vehicle recently and had to go about 200 miles to a dealership that had a stick shift model in stock. |
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 20:29:43 -0400, Arif Khokar >
wrote: >more difficult to find vehicles with stick shifts I think it should be a requirement to learn on....its about mental/physical coordination. Fuel mileage wise, autos vs sticks today are about same, or same mpg. |
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