Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
Ahhh. The manual transmission. Or as we like to call it - the Gen-Z antitheft device.
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SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Don't leave home without it.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
I told the wife I was going to buy the boys an old Mack B series with split trannys... 5 on the main and a Quadraplex on the aux... 20 speeds with no synchros... Thought she was going to kill me that night.. 
Jadera
Airman 1st Class
Hey I'll have you know despite not having a license, I can sorta kinda drive a manual.
I am getting fed up with the "autostall" feature on my car. Some yayhoo who apparently has never driven a car in rush hour traffic thought "Ya know? Wouldn't it be cool if every time a car stopped the engine would just automatically shut off? Think of the energy we could save!" Except there is no set time for the autostall feature to kick in. You could stop at a light and the engine keeps running, or you could tap your brakes lightly and ... nothing.
Can you not deactivate it? I can on my car. I don't mind it though. The restart is super fast and does not slow me down. In fact all I have to do is slightly twitch the stearing wheel and it restarts.
Over in Germany just about everyone learns on a manual regardless of generation. We jokingly called it the American Anti-theft Device.
Here in the UK if you pass your driving test in an automatic you can't legally drive a manual car.Over in Germany just about everyone learns on a manual regardless of generation. We jokingly called it the American Anti-theft Device.
Jadera
Airman 1st Class
How does that work?
Same in Germany. If you learn on a manual you can legally drive both. If you learn on an automatic your license is annotated as such until you go and test on a manual.
Driving schools are long and legit compared to the drivers ed, or relying on parents passing on their bad habits to their teens like here in the US.
It's expensive too. I think I paid 1,500 Deutsch Marks to get my license. It's even more expensive now.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Because you weren't getting her one?I told the wife I was going to buy the boys an old Mack B series with split trannys... 5 on the main and a Quadraplex on the aux... 20 speeds with no synchros... Thought she was going to kill me that night..
fubar57
General
I told the wife I was going to buy the boys an old Mack B series with split trannys... 5 on the main and a Quadraplex on the aux... 20 speeds with no synchros... Thought she was going to kill me that night..
When I was 18, I drove a Pacific P-10 off highway gravel truck, 6 on the main and 4 auxiliary; 4th gear reverse was scary fast
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Escuadrilla Azul
Master Sergeant
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- Feb 27, 2020
It is available. Both my personal and corporate cars have it, the first diesel and the other gasoline.
special ed
1st Lieutenant
- 7,102
- May 13, 2018
A couple of quick memories from the past:
My first daughter was moving to South Carolina from flatland south Louisiana. She was concerned about rollback when stopped on a hill in her standard shift car, so I took her to a loading dock on a Sunday for practice. Many truck height loading docks are dug out allowing the trailer to back in down to deck level. We spent about an hour until she was satisfied with her ability. Later, after the move she told me hills were no problem but it had spoiled her flatland ability.
Another memory involved a 1947 Federal Two & 1/2 ton stakebody truck. My friend inherited it from his uncle and it had a completely unsyncronised transmission. His normal way of shifting was to allow the gears to slow between shifts to not grind gears. When considerable city driving was required, I was called because of my double clutch ability, learned as I remember, from an MGA
My first daughter was moving to South Carolina from flatland south Louisiana. She was concerned about rollback when stopped on a hill in her standard shift car, so I took her to a loading dock on a Sunday for practice. Many truck height loading docks are dug out allowing the trailer to back in down to deck level. We spent about an hour until she was satisfied with her ability. Later, after the move she told me hills were no problem but it had spoiled her flatland ability.
Another memory involved a 1947 Federal Two & 1/2 ton stakebody truck. My friend inherited it from his uncle and it had a completely unsyncronised transmission. His normal way of shifting was to allow the gears to slow between shifts to not grind gears. When considerable city driving was required, I was called because of my double clutch ability, learned as I remember, from an MGA
fubar57
General
On the Pacific, I was taught that 2000 rpm was the sweet spot and you could shift without the clutch. After a few weeks, you didn't have to look at the tach, you went by sound
Escuadrilla Azul
Master Sergeant
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- Feb 27, 2020
There is one point were a manual car can be changed without using the clutch. A friend father who was mechanic once we lose the clutch CAME and drove the clutchless Peugeot, first home and after to his workshop for repairs. And was a step Drive to both, some 20 km in all.
cvairwerks
Staff Sergeant
Nah, she doesn't like to have to climb to get in a vehicle. She got lots of Pete/KW time moving the BIL's rock trucks so she could get out of their driveway when she was living with them for a while. The goober always managed to park just far enough across the drive that she couldn't get out without having to move the truck every morning.
MiTasol
Major
We call it hand ground gears.
MiTasol
Major
Same here in Aus.
