Off topic but I’m really happy I’m seeing more and more mastodon screenshots instead of Twitter. Also helps me find new peeps to follow.
Someone clearly has never had to hill start a manual transmission vehicle…
Don’t you use the handbrake for a hill start? Kinda awkward stepping on both the brake and gas pedals while one foot is on the clutch.
No, I hold down the clutch and the brake, then slowly start releasing the clutch, and when the engine starts struggling I release the brake and jump to the gas pedal to get more revs in, release the clutch all the way, and hopefully start moving forward instead of stalling the engine.
Or just hold the brake, put in gear, then release the brake, rev up the engine to 3k rpm and release the clutch. Not as good for the motor and gearbox but faster lol
Edit: Ya’ll, if one knows what they do, and knows the car, speeding the motor up to a specific amount, often 2-2.5k rpm, and releasing the clutch a specific amount, takes less time than gravity needs to overcome the inertia. I’m almost always literally starting while practically still standing, because it takes ~0.1 second to do said things, if you know the car and its sweet spots.
There are a few possibilities:
- It’s faster, especially if the handbrake isn’t applied already.
- Some cars, like the one I drove most of the time in driving school, have an automation to keep braking for a second, so one just needs to: Brake, Clutch, Put in gear, Release Brake, Rev up engine a bit, Release Clutch.
- My current car’s Handbrake is basically non-functional, so I have to do the fast foot shuffle.
Break what? Break dance?
Instructions unclear, I pressed the clutch also and my car booted into engineering mode.
That is probably how you really take a screenshot of the main display in a Tesla
