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      852 years ago

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

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        102 years ago

        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.

      • @Pavidus@lemmy.world
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        I think you drastically underestimate the number of gearheads in the States. Makes sense, given we have incredibly limited public transport. Currently have 3 manuals in my driveway.

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          Of course, it a joke based on the fact that manual gearbox is, even to this day, the standard in Europe. I would be very surprise to meet someone with a driver license who can’t drive manual. It seems in the USA manual driving is a hobby for car enthusiast. But what do I know? I have never step foot on the new continent.

      • @elscallr@lemmy.world
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        82 years ago

        Am US citizen, only drive manual transmissions. Anyone here who likes cars can drive a manual transmission, anyone who doesn’t like cars doesn’t give a shit about a manual transmission and just wants to get where they’re going.

        We invented cars, we’re allowed to decide how they evolve.

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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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          62 years ago

          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.

        • @Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
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          22 years ago

          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.

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          The third pedal becomes invisible to the ignorant minds.

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        Joke appart, this is the proper way to do an emergency braking.

        • @smeg@feddit.uk
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          22 years ago

          And if you have an acceleration-activated dash-cam this could cause it to trigger, which is as near to a screenshot as you’re getting!

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            22 years ago

            Wow, this post isn’t even a meme anymore at this point !