1y ago

They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed

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That's the clutch and brake pedals...
- USA citizen having no clue about the existence of manual gear-box in vehicles, probably.
  
  US stick driver here, equally disappointed in the picture.
  
  They just added the caption. If the creator of this were capable of making the drawing, they would do something more with their life than memes.
  You can't find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.
  
  I haven't driven a stick in over a decade and this meme upsets me.
  
  I think you drastically underestimate the number of gearheads in the States. Makes sense, given we have incredibly limited public transport. Currently have 3 manuals in my driveway.
  
  Third pedal is there tho
  
  Am US citizen, only drive manual transmissions. Anyone here who likes cars can drive a manual transmission, anyone who doesn't like cars doesn't give a shit about a manual transmission and just wants to get where they're going.
  We invented cars, we're allowed to decide how they evolve.
- The fools, this actually reboots the car into safe mode!
  
  Joke appart, this is the proper way to do an emergency braking.
- Exactly. They take a screenshot.

That's the clutch and break you fucking idiot.
- It's a brake, you fucking idiot
  
  I needa take a brake from the internet, you fucking idiots

The image shows the clutch and brake being pressed though...
- Probably a gen-z trying to make jokes about cars.

Turn the car off, shift to 4th gear, press break, break and windshield wiper, then turn it back on to enter Developer Mode
- You joke but my old FJ Cruiser requires you to turn the key to accessory, turn it off, turn the key back to accessory, open and close the door three times, turn the key back off, turn the key to accessory while holding the odometer reset button for 5 seconds and then it will enter pairing mode for the remote fob.
  It made me feel the same joy as pressing the option on my Android phone 5 times to enter development mode back in the mid 2010s but it gets old quick.
  
  And for this next trick, we will dance the macarena while reciting the alphabet backwards and jumping on one foot!
  
  That sounds like the automotive hokey-pokey I had to do with my 06 corolla for the key fob.
  
  We need to test a vehicle on a dynamometer and to get the transmission into dyno mode it was something like that, press brake 3 times, press the button on the shift selector twice, move to neutral then reverse 3 times, etc, it was a super long combo. It was so satisfying to see the CAN message that we entered test mode
  
  On for three seconds. Off for five seconds. On for three seconds. (rinse repeat)
- I have a motorcycle that uses a keyfob, there's a sequence of events using the stop-run switch and the turn signals so you can enter a code and get the bike to start.
  
  What motorcycle is that?

If you press the gas pedal long enough, you see a rewind of your life
- But if you press the brake too hard, it'll break...... Sorry for being a disappointment :(

On a Mac it's way more intuitive than this. You just ... hold on, I have to look it up again.
- Shift+CMD+3 is not that hard to remember
  
  And what does that do exactly? Take a snapshot of the whole screen or just a selected portion? And does it copy to the clipboard or create a file? And where is the file? That shit actually is hard to remember, especially if you don't do it every day. And it is in no sense of the word "intuitive".

My dad used to yell at me for trying to drive like this when I was a teenager!
Somehow my brain decided that if I needed to drive slower then I should just add some brakes instead of just letting off the gas...
That lasted about a week lol
- I've always heard that this is how a lot of the "wrong pedal" accidents go. Two foot drivers get panicked in an accident and slam on both the gas and the brakes at the same time. I feel like the brake should be able to override the gas though. But I've never tried it and am not about to lol.
  
  I feel like the brake should be able to override the gas though.
  "Override" in the sense of pushing the brake pedal cancelling the accelerator input signal? No.
  "Overpower" in the sense of the brakes being able to apply more force to stop the wheels from turning than the engine at full throttle is able to apply to keep them turning? Yes.
  
  In many cars, they don’t.
- Nah, just tell him you're trying to keep the turbo spooled up.

why do people insist on talking relatively recent content and plagiarizing it mere days later? karma is even less meaningful here. what is the point?
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  yeah I'm sure you're right about that
- weird way to say "reposting"
  
  I guess a repost to me is a share of the same content when it's posted. what I'm seeing is a remake of the same thing a week or 2 later. it's just so damn boring and pointless.

True! But only the Teslas do this
- Do Tesla transmissions also spontaneously combust?
  
  Only if possessed

This is an emergency stop
- Shouldn't you pretty much always do this when coming to a stop in a manual??
  
  Yes, that's how I learned it in driving school as well. You can decelerate using the brake only, but once your speed drops below ~25 kmh / ~15 mph you should use the clutch simultaneously to not kill the engine. And it's not harmful to use the clutch already on higher speeds since all it does is disconnect the gears - though leaving it engaged while you are not using gas means that the load on the gearbox helps to decelerate a bit faster.
  
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And if you take your shifter and go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, brake, gas, you'll add 30 months back onto your warranty!

Idk if I'm being elitist or flexing the fact that I'm poor but as a stick shift driver in the state of Vermont I often did this in winter to get the heat going granted I always had the clutch down as well
- I think you're flexing the fact that you have three legs tbh.
  Life pro tip, you don't have to push the clutch if you're in neutral.
  
  Left toe on clutch, right heel on brake, right toe on gas. Good for revving the car at the traffic light if the engine's cold or if you're a jackass.
  
  You don't have a third leg?

I had an old car whose engine would die if it didn't get gas, so you would always be giving it a bit of gas at all times. When you came to a stop, you had to push slightly down on the gas and all the way down on the brake, otherwise the engine would shut off.
Also would allow you to take the key out of the ignition while the car was running and it would keep running so you could unlock house doors with your keys. My parents actually sent it into the shop to "fix" that. I still don't know why they spent money to get rid of a feature. Were they afraid I would leave it on without the keys? The engine would just die without someone to push down on the gas petal.
- I had a car that needed gas, and was a stick shift. I called the technique three footing. Basically I jammed my heel on the brake and raked my toes on the gas pedal to keep the engine running at a light or stop sign.

The infotainment system in my friend's truck would periodically get wonky and he would have to pull over, turn the truck off, wait a minute, then turn it back on.
We always joked that he had to do a Ctrl-Alt-Brake Pedal.

With my face on the windshield? Idk I don't drive

Why do it want to do this?
- you can share your screenshot with the mechanic before you go in for repairs
- For the record, in 99% of driving scenarios, you probably don't want to press the brake and gas at the same time. For the 1%, you can do something called brake boosting. This is where on turbo cars, you brake to maintain a slower speed, at the same time you press the gas to spool up the turbo, which results in you having little to no turbo lag while racing.
  
  You would also do this momentarily (with automatic) when starting from a stop on a steep upward incline, like certain San Francisco street intersections. Get the gas going slightly while holding the brake, then ease off to move forward without rolling back. Because the guy behind you is always too close for comfort.
- In an automatic car. It's a good way to do a burn out provided the engine has enough torque and the breaking is biased to the front.
  
  and the breaking is biased to the front.
  What does that mean, the front falls off?
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Now I kinda wish there's some equivalent graphic of someone doing heel-toe so you'd see all 3 pedals being mashed lol.
- Probably better for your car than just the brake and gas as well

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