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Topic	American men who attach their masculinity to being able to drive a stick
Japanties 03/27/24 10:38:50 AM #38:	mustachedmystic posted... I just saw an article that claimed some young Americans are embracing manuals because they are retro. Sounds like marketing disguised as social engineering to me. The last I saw sales on manual cars, they were something like 2% of the entire market, which is the lowest it's ever been in the US. Lvaneede posted... Manuals are better 90% of the time As someone whose primary car is a manual, I disagree. I already don't trust most people to drive safely in an automatic. Additional user inputs are not going to improve that. pinky0926 posted... It's all fun and games until you're stuck in a slow and sporadically moving traffic jam for an hour and the speed of traffic can't figure out if you should be in first or second. I get stuck in traffic like this once a week when my office work day. I default to coasting in 1st, even when there's a 2 car gap ahead of me--you just know there will be bumper-to-bumper stop again in a few seconds. pinky0926 posted... Because I do this, I end up leaving a fairly large gap between me and the driver in front. That seems like a good idea - means I coast slowly rather than stopping and starting. And for some fucking reason, some asshole in the next lane over takes this as a signal to move into my lane. Like he thinks because there's a gap it's going to get him there faster. Everyone who has ever driven a manual has had this experience I think. <cite>Japanties posted [p:979588988] in American m... [t:80731808]...</cite> <quote>mustachedmystic posted... </cite><quote>I just saw an article that claimed some young Americans are embracing manuals because they are retro.</quote>Sounds like marketing disguised as social engineering to me. The last I saw sales on manual cars, they were something like 2% of the entire market, which is the lowest it's ever been in the US.Lvaneede posted... </cite><quote>Manuals are better 90% of the time</quote>As someone whose primary car is a manual, I disagree. I already don't trust most people to drive safely in an automatic. Additional user inputs are not going to improve that.pinky0926 posted... </cite><quote>It's all fun and games until you're stuck in a slow and sporadically moving traffic jam for an hour and the speed of traffic can't figure out if you should be in first or second.</quote>I get stuck in traffic like this once a week when my office work day. I default to coasting in 1st, even when there's a 2 car gap ahead of me--you just know there will be bumper-to-bumper stop again in a few seconds.pinky0926 posted... </cite><quote>Because I do this, I end up leaving a fairly large gap between me and the driver in front. That seems like a good idea - means I coast slowly rather than stopping and starting. And for some fucking reason, some asshole in the next lane over takes this as a signal to move into my lane. Like he thinks because there's a gap it's going to get him there faster.</quote>Everyone who has ever driven a manual has had this experience I think.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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