114 points

I’ll only drive automatic. No desire to work harder at driving in the city.

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What, you don’t want to shift gears endlessly while stuck moving between 10 mph and a dead stop on the freeway for three hours?

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Hear me out for a second…

Maybe, just maybe, it’s spending 3 hours in stop and go traffic that’s the problem, not the transmission.

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Agreed, but having lived it myself with a manual transmission, it’s rough with a manual. It’s one of the few scenarios where I don’t prefer it.

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I think cars may have something to do with traffic but not sure.

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So… Is a manual transmission not the correct solution? should I move so I can drive a manual?

One way or the other. Cars are the real problem there.

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I dunno what kind of car you’re driving, but mine will do 10mph in first quite comfortably. I wouldn’t be “shifting endlessly” in that scenario…?

Also, just leave a decent gap between you and the car in front and idle along at 2mph without stopping and starting all the time.

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It’s funny because this is the exact same argument anti-cyclists make. Lol

“Tell someone they should ride a bike and suddenly everyone has to move a fridge”

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There’s a winning attitude…

Better hope you never have to drive outside of the USA

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For me the only reason to drive manual was becase automats used to be less effective. With current generation, the computer with its 12 gears is much more ecological then my macho hand lovingly stroking my cars stick can ever be…

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My biggest thing is that they make people pay more attention. I dont think better drivers drive stick, i think the stick makes YOU a better driver.

Less eating, drinking, phone holding, texting etc. You have to know speeds and rpms for which gears. It keeps me from speeding knowing this street is a 4th gear street. When i end up driving a auto car, i will often loook down and wonder how i got to the speed i am at, though that may also be due to the fact its not my car and im just not used to the sensation of speed.

On another note, i think on average manual trans are less prone to failure. I know alot of cars that have essentially been junked due to an auto trans problem, but a manual just needs a new clutch every one and a while. Though this might be less common on newer cars compared to 90’s and early 2000’s cars.

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And with the rise of EVs auto transmission failures will be a thing of the past. Except for the few sports EVs that for some reason have a multiple gears.

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Do you not know how gears work? For some reason? Do you really not understand why they have more gears?

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i think the stick makes YOU a better driver.

It doesn’t make me a better driver, it’s a continual distraction. I recently switched from a manual to an automatic car and I now have far more available headspace to pay attention to the world around me.

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7 points

You just never properly learned it then.

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i think on average manual trans are less prone to failure.

As far as I’m aware this is still true. They’re also significantly cheaper to repair/replace if need be.

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This is a very astute answer, I like it

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I dont understand how constantly having to (partially ofc) focus on shifting could get you more focused on actually driving. If anything, it takes away your attention from the road.

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Shifting is just part of driving. It means you have to pay attention to speed, Rpm, and braking points. It just makes driving more engaging, which reduces distraction. It doesnt make driving easier. If anything it makes it harder. But the benefit is that it reduces complacency.

When i am driving. I am driving. Im not doing makeup, eating, messing with the radio, texting etc. Part of that is driving stick. It keeps you engaged in driving. Thats not to say its impossible to be a distracted driver in a manual, just that its easier to get distracted in an auto.

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For speed control I wish every car had easy to use cruise control and speed limiting, I hate having to constantly worry I’ve crept above the limit and will get a ticket especially on long boring roads littered with speed cameras.

Imagine just being able to concentrate on what’s around you and where you’re going without needing to be endlessly worrying about engine revs, speed enforcement, and the potential cost of getting either wrong.

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23 points

I drive a manual because all through the 90s a manual was a lot more reliable and cheaper to fix than an automatic. I also hated the automatic gear selection. It was always in a gear I didn’t want. I recently had a rental car which was a Ford with a 10-speed automatic and yeah they have come a long way. I’ve only ever owned manuals but I think my next car will be an auto. I hear reliability is good now.

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i very recently learned how to drive. Learned manual because it is still the majority of cars on the roads here… Looking forward to the majority of the vehicles being automatic! It makes a lot more sense

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Do you love cars stick? Are you a gay car?

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2 points

8+ auto with paddles. Perfect

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Most people don’t know this but the “R” gear means “Race”

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13 points

Yes, but only once

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1 point

Actually means Republican.

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Yes, the “R” gear makes the car go backwards just like how the Republican party makes progress in America go backwards. TBH the same logic would apply if the gear was labeled “D”. Me and my comrades believe that socialism comes first then communism because if you start in a higher gear the engine will stall out but lower gears are quite slow and don’t make full use of the car and its powers.

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74 points

Handbrake start is for noobs. Learn to use your clutch.

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95 points

Roll backwards into the person behind you to establish manual dominance.

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63 points

On a steep hill, your clutch will thank you for using the handbrake. Especially in stop and go traffic towing a trailer. Ask me how I know.

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How I know?

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I know you’re being funny, but to answer the question I posited: every summer, after people came back from towing their caravans up through the mountains, my dad’s shop would be replacing loads of clutches with people complaining about the weird smells their car started making. Or the sudden trouble they had shifting.

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There’s a nightmare scenario if I ever heard one.

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Handbrake start is what’s taught in countries where the the driving test isn’t “Press go pedal, press stop pedal, congrats you passed”

In upward inclines it’s better for your clutch too.

Not having the coordination to use both feet and both hands independently of each other is what’s for noobs

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Not having the coordination to use both feet and both hands independently of each other is what’s for noobs

Laughs in knowing how much clutch pressure to apply to start your car uphill without grating cheese

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I’ve been taught to balance between brake and clutch for inclines. Or is that the same thing?

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Aye even my poverty-spec car locks the manual transmission on a hill until the clutch bites

Didn’t even know it did it until I’d had it for over a year 😂

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Cars are for nubes, real chade walks🫡. Talking about the true manual here.

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true! although wouldnt manual be walking on ones hands ?

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7 points

No, that would be handual.

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9 points

Using your third foot…?

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14 points

You let the clutch up until the rims start to drop a tiny bit, at this point you can let off the brake and move your foot to the gas. You shouldn’t move backwards as long as you are slow and feel for the engine to not stall

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You get the car rolling with just the clutch. Quite the pain, not a fan of driving stick myself.

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4 points

Tell me you are a diesel driver without telling me. By the time you get an average gas car moving the light is red again if you don’t rev it to at least 1500

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You give it a bit of gas while letting the clutch pedal go up though. Or a bunch of gas if you lease a car because who gives a shit.

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3 points

Ever drive in Seattle?

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No, but my family hails from the Ozarks.

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Tips for a learner? My stompy parking brake won’t play nice right now, so I kind of need to figure this shit out in my new old truck. Lol.

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Well, it’s just a trick you need to get the feeling for. Start one foot on the break, and other on the clutch. Let clutch go halfway, without stalling the car, and quickly move your right foot from brake to gas. Press on gas pedal, while releasing clutch. If you do it right, the car starts driving forward, even on a upwards hill. It takes practice, and every car feels different.

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A good indicator for learning this – especially if you don’t have the feel for your clutch yet – is to watch your RPM counter. If it starts to dip, the clutch is starting to engage. From there on, continue as described.

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If you’re on a really steep incline, you’ll have to press both the brake and gas pedal at the same time using your right foot, while feathering the clutch with your left. I’ve heard this called the “heel toe” technique.

If your engine has enough torque or if the hill isn’t steep enough, you can ignore this and just ease off the clutch while transitioning from the brake to gas.

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Awesome. Thanks. I’ve down Heel-Toe before in an automatic up a mountain road in the snow, so I’m familiar with that a little.

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Mine has a brief brake assist, about 1.5 seconds it won’t roll backwards on a hill start.

It’s so subtle and I’ve had the car so long, I completely forget about it.

Any time I drive a car without it freak out when I come off the brake and the car starts moving backwards.

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I always stall it with those brake assist features. I’m coming off the clutch and the damn computer still has the brakes on, so it cuts out.

Y’all can keep your computers. I’m keeping my carburettors for now.

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good point

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If you can’t hold the brake with your right foot and roll start with the clutch left foot without touching the gas, you need more practice.

exceptions given for fully loaded old as dirt pickup trucks that don’t like to idle properly, those you can heel toe… not that I’d know anything about that of course.,

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I haven’t driven a whole lot of cars and none of them were old as dirt pickup trucks but I’ve seen enough where the idle gas was not enough to get the car rolling on an incline without stalling it. Sometimes you just need a good handbrake start

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The car doesn’t need to start rolling. You need just enough clutch to keep from rolling backwards.

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On flat ground, agreed. On a hill, my car just doesnt have the power to do that without some gas.

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I got pulled over a couple of months ago and the cop told me to put it in park. I wiggled the stick back and forth to show it was in neutral and they thought I was fucking with them and kept saying to put it in park. Idiots

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17 points

“Sorry sir. I was in airplane mode.”

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7 points

smartest cop

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7 points

This is the funniest.

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Isn’t it best practice to park in 1st? So that if the handbrake fails the engine brake slows the car a bit rather than it being a free falling projectile.

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Reverse is better, it’s an even shorter gear than first so the engine has to spin more times per wheel revolution.

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I suspect OP still had the engine running. That said, a lot of Americans seem to drive automatics and never use the handbrake, arguing that the tiny little tab in the transmission can hold their fully loaded “truck”, so it stands to reason that there are people in the world who leave their cars out of gear and argue that the handbrake could not fail.

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Late reply, but no, not unless you are parked on a steep hill without any sidewalks. Leaving it parked in gear puts a great deal of stress on the clutch. Clutches aren’t very fun or easy to replace. If you’re on a hill with a sidewalk you should turn your front tires away from sidewalk on the incline, and towards the sidewalk on the decline.

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Why would there be load on the clutch if the handbrake is on?

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