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You're right. If you ever lose your brakes get the car in neutral and try to coast to a stop. That said, he had his foot on the brake so I assume he had the cl
by starwind 4y ago
You're right. If you ever lose your brakes get the car in neutral and try to coast to a stop.
That said, he had his foot on the brake so I assume he had the clutch in
- adolph 4y agoThe episode of CHiPs that demonstrates this procedure was later cited as a source by police officers who encountered a vehicle with a similar problem. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/03/usa.stevenmorris https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/03/usa.stevenmorr...
- nequo 4y agoNo clutch to press. This was a Ferrari 488 GTB which has an automatic transmission. It must have good torque in first gear?
- starwind 4y agooh interesting. When the article said he was in first gear and the poster above mentioned a handbreak I assumed he had a stick
- GekkePrutser 4y agoSo automatics don't have a handbrake in the US? Weird. I had a Volkswagen Jetta automatic from work for a while (7 speed DSG) and it definitely had a traditional pull-up handbrake. But perhaps US is different.
- nequo 4y agoThe automatics I have driven had either that or a foot-operated handbrake to the left of where the clutch pedal would normally be. I wouldn’t pretend to know how a Ferrari does it though.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago--- this guy has a video of him pulling the parking break while driving his Ferrari (because they told him to...!) - looks like it's a lever on the dash area -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzRpo8EjG8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzRpo8EjG8Q
- rasz 4y agoVideo should be called 'driver with actual official driver license learns for the first time that brakes stop the car'.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoOh ok I assumed incorrectly that being sports cars, all Ferraris are manuals.
- ffggvv 4y agointersting assumption. most sports cars don't even include a manual option these days.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI thought "sports" meant racing and the driver wanting to have maximum control over their gears? But I'm from Europe, pretty much all cars here are manual, not just the sports ones.
- bobbygoodlatte 4y agoThe car in question uses a dual clutch transmission. You can operate it in either automatic or manual mode. In manual mode you're selecting the gears yourself using paddle shifters. But there's no clutch pedal. The automatic mode is technically "automatic-manual" in that it operates differently than a true automatic transmission. The computer shifts gears in lieu of you using the paddle shifters. It tends to be slightly jerkier than a true automatic. These days its extremely rare to find a new-release supercar with a stick-shift manual. They almost all use dual-clutch paddle shifters.
- sph 4y agoA sports car paddle shifter is never called "automatic", hence GP's confusion. It's semi-automatic, or more commonly known as sequential transmission. It's closer to a stick-shift than a manual transmission, as you have to manually upshift and downshift. Only the clutch is automated.
- ffggvv 4y agoat least in america a sports car would be a car like the toyota supra. Which only added a manual this year. Didn't offer it before. same with many bmw's etc.