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I live in Silicon Valley and sit in nasty traffic daily in my manual transmission car. It's such second nature it doesn't even register. A motorcycle is a diff
by city41 10y ago
I live in Silicon Valley and sit in nasty traffic daily in my manual transmission car. It's such second nature it doesn't even register.
A motorcycle is a different story. Holding the clutch in with your left hand gets downright painful after a while. Thankfully lane splitting is legal here.
- atourgates 10y agoI commuted about 1.5 hours/day in Southern California for 4-years in a manual transmission. Never once did it bother me. Shifting in traffic becomes second nature, it's not some difficult thing that you have to think about. The only challenge with a manual transmission is that it makes it harder to do stuff in your car with your hands, like eat a burrito, that you shouldn't be doing anyway.
- rconti 10y agoSV MT driver too, I simply don't get it either. You're already sitting there. The controls are not hard to operate.
- THE_PUN_STOPS 10y agoI have semi-regular nightmares about getting stuck in eternal stop-and-go traffic on Storrow Drive in Boston on my motorcycle... The lanes are too narrow to lanesplit, there's nowhere to get off (it's a very limited access expressway and the exits are usually even worse) and people honk and swerve around you if you try to attain the average speed of the crowd by leaving a gap. Yeugh. My left hand hurts just thinking about it.