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I think you like manual because that's all you know at first but when you try a hill start in an automatic the first time you're sold on its comfort. Now the n
by xwolfi 5y ago
I think you like manual because that's all you know at first but when you try a hill start in an automatic the first time you're sold on its comfort.
Now the next step is deciding wether you enjoy the precise control of the manual vs the liberating comfort of the automatic.
I d argue that a tiptronic like solution that does both is perfect and should be default in all cars. But then it s a matter of cost.
At least you're totally wrong thinking we buy manual because they're simple enough we can modify them :D We're 70M people where I come from, 95% of cars are manual, never ever heard this one.
- _Nat_ 5y agoIt's that "precise control of the manual" that's enabling. Presumably we'll see the same thing with fully self-driving cars in the future. This is, a mature self-driving technology should eventually out-perform (unmodified) humans, but even then, when there's no argument for manual-driving's practicality, some folks'd probably want to drive manually anyway.
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- _wldu 5y agoManual transmissions are very rare in the USA now. Most auto manufacturers don't use them anymore (even in trucks). And the few that do, only do so in certain models that have to be ordered. I bought a manual in 2019. I had to drive to another state to get it. That was the last year the car I bought came with an option for a manual.
- coldtea 5y ago>At least you're totally wrong thinking we buy manual because they're simple enough we can modify them :D We're 70M people where I come from, 95% of cars are manual, never ever heard this one. And 400M people with manual in Europe, where an equal share (95% or so) is manual. And 99% of the people seldom if ever "modify" or hot-rod their cars. That's more of an American thing, in the country where they have the automatics as the first choice.
- cesarb 5y agoThat will probably change once EVs become more popular. All EVs I've heard of use either single-ratio transmissions, or automatic transmissions, even in Europe.