This confuses the American

>This confuses the American

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Only the Yankee. In the south, most people can drive them.

how common is 6 gears these days? I only have 4

why would you even have 6?

>manual
literally plumber tier

can't wait for the electric drivetrain to kill it tbqhfam

I have never owned and automatic. About half of anyone I have ever met knows how to drive a manual.

Mines a 5 speed, wish it was 6 for the overdrive on the highway.
Look at modern automatics. 11 speeds now and more efficient than manual under all conditions thanks to computer control.
I still prefer stick though as it's what driving means to me.

Mazda just came out with the gasoline/diesel engine. Same principal as diesel but with gasoline and should drive efficiency up another notch.
In Canada, we have much wide open space and -40C/F winters so can't see electric taking over anytime soon.

Show your car

pppffff

people in "your" (you are an English teacher in Japan, therefore it's not your country) country drive ugly boxes

THAT is literally plumber tier

half of anyone is still pretty low.
My 12 year old baby niece knows how to drive standard and most people I know regardless of they owning a car know how to drive standard

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>drive manual in Murrika
>get shot

Half is pretty good if you consider that manual transmission is "optional equipment" that costs extra for the majority of cars sold in the US these days.

manual transmission makes driving more dangerous. It fucks up with novice drivers by adding anothe layer to take care of when you should be 100% focused on your surrounding.

Yes just look at how safe American roads are!

Oh wait.

Driving manual actually makes you focus more on driving. Have you ever driven automatic? Guess not, because that shit is so easy, you bore yourself to death and get distracted really easily.

Ironically Americans all drive autotragic and they're all distracted as fuck because all they need to worry about is keeping the car in lane so they constantly stare at their phone.

I have done both and automatic is undoubtebly superior

Kinderp of hard to do anything but focus on deiving you need to shift. People with automatics do all kinds of stupid shit while driving
>Eating burgers
>texting
>shaving
>applying makeup
>reading
>doing paperwork
>etc

I disagree. Problem today is young drivers don't know how to drive and instead rely on the automatic systems like stability, traction and antilock brakes.

Manual is superior for control of your vehicle. Starting on ice, downhill, or just control of your vehicle.

Automatics are just better for fuel efficiency now that they have 11 gears and computer control, but for mechanical simplicity, manual is superior again.

>automatic is undoubtebly superior
For luxury cars, SUV's, and then super cars will have flappy paddles.
Manuals are for old muscle cars, and little econo boxes with 50 horsepower

Yeah, it's confusing why euros insist on using outdated technology

STANDARD transmission shouldn't be an optional equipment, but anyways whatever floats your boat.
I drive an auto car, but driving that shit on hills, loaded with stuff and people or taking it to the highway s a fucking pain in the ass and way more dangerous than standard
or just like this guy said I have a shitty econo box

>boils water in the microwave

But that shit is tolerated in murrica? Because here the cops won't miss you.

>But that shit is tolerated in murrica?
no, cops will stop you if they see

It shouldn't be optional but it is, even on econoboxes
$500 extra for the 5 speed manual when I bought new Ford focus in 2005
It's America, what do you expect in a land of lazy?

Fuck no. If they get caught they get a ticket. It's just that they don't often get caught nor do they learn if they do and continue doing it anyway.

I've seen this so many times but that face always manages to crack me up.

Out of his list the only thing actually illegal is texting and even then there are some states where that's allowed.

Specifically illegal.
Everything else falls under "careless or reckless driving" in the majority of jurisdictions.

He could just Google it.

i have 6 because i'm not a manchild and my car has 10x more horsepower than your corolla

5 here.

Is your car from the 70's?

I would guess he at least has 6 cylinders or maybe 8.
Bigger engines have more low rpm torque, so I don't think as many gears are needed.

You're right.
I wish I learned how to drive manual.

Love posting something like this or a picture of microwaved water and getting 100+ replies

-86 ford escort

>this car comes to your neighborhood blasting reggateon at full volume

how would you react? that's right u'd run away pussy

I love escorts!

I know a car "expert" and he says that while manual gave you benefits in the past nowadays in new cars automatics are basically superior in every way

Torque converters still sap power and performance cars use computer controlled double clutches so they're closer to manuals than automatics in that regard.
Automatics these days are more fuel efficient in all scenarios because they have so many gears and perfect shift points and times compared to people.

I say get a standard though since soon I doubt people will be allowed to drive since self driving cars will have a 100000x less accidents, decrease congestion and increase traffic flow unlike people.

We'll become obsolete and then you'll never know the joys of a gasoline powered manual like the superior manual drivers of yesteryear. ;_;

>soon I doubt people will be allowed to drive

gonna be like 30 years or more before manual driving will be banned

lmaooo this is what brainlets actually believe

if you have a very underpowered engine manual is better probably

>I say get a standard though since soon I doubt people will be allowed to drive since self driving cars
North American problems.

Probably European first. You guys are more progressive I think.

They'll just get you on insurance.

Insurance co: Oh I see YOU want to drive it, lol. That'll be $10000 a month.

We're also less dependent on cars in the first place, therefore not having such a demand for autonomous cars, and our roads are far more complicated than yours. Daimler is already running trials with autonomous semi trucks in Nevada, Google has tested autonomous cars in California. Absolutely unthinkable here. Tesla's assist can barely keep up with our roads, and it's just a glorified cruise control and lane keeper, nowhere near a full operating system.

Making smart phones more easily available was a mistake

Building your entire society around driving was the biggest mistake of all. Now everyone needs to drive even if they don't care a bit about it, and you're forced to license everyone for driving even if they utterly suck at it. And nowadays if you want to increase requirements it's seen as discrimination against poor, uneducated black drivers in some twisted leftie logic.

It's already hard enough to bike ride especially when California does jack shit to support infrastructure and their roads.

Gotta thank the oil Barrons and car companies for destroying the great mass transit systems we had started 150 years ago.

It'll stop people from using vehicles to kill pedestrians. I think the ability of autonomous cars to navigate is based on how powerful the silicon controlling them is.
There's lots of benefits in theory, but I like driving myself so besides ABS and stability control, my car is old school compared to a Tesla S anyway. I even have to use mirrors or look behind me to reverse.

So one of my friends has a really nice car, and after we talked to some tourist american girls that came to the city one of them sees the car and she's all "oh wow can i drive!?"
so my friend obviously says yes, because when you have to wager the potential of destroying a 200,000 euro machine against the potential of getting laid, it's obvious what you'll go with.

so we get in the car and the girl, i swear to christ, says: "what's that thing?(looking at the gear stick).

this is the point where any sane person would tell the girl to move so he can drive the car, but the guy attempts to instruct her in how to drive a stick.

i spent that night in jail with a dry dick-fuck you america.

except it was built that way because driving is by far the most practical transportation for short-medium distances ever invented

of course now we've become painfully aware of its shortcomings

Could be worse, at least you have the economy and population to build one.

>most practical transportation
>implying riding a vehicle that takes at least 5 square meters and needs to be parked is practical at all

Its shortcomings were inevitable, but they were ignored because there was too much money to be made in it.

That's not working out so well, at least where I live. Subway system seems out of the question so they are building light rail. It's a bit of a disaster because the Siemens rail cars break down constantly.
>that superior German engineering

name a more practical method for distances 10-200km, considering there's no railway infrastructure put in place in most places.

Could get them from Bombardier so maybe it doesn't become a drain on us taxpayers. lol

I was talking about national systems though. Like the hyperloop.

To be honest that also has to do with how well you take care of them. It's an analogy to cars where German products are finely engineered and require fine care, and American products are large and crude and can be hit with a hammer to fix them. German cars always seem to be more unreliable as soon as they're in the hands of Americans.

The only reason the distances are this large in the first place is because people in cities started living more spread out. For compact urban structures rail is the ideal solution. New York City would collapse if all their subway traffic switched to the road.

that makes sense desu

it might've been that cities would've been built more vertically if rail transport was the primary means of transportation

But apparently that's communist, and everyone has the right to live in a detached oversized shed and drive 30 miles to work on a ten lane highway.

u wat mate?

NYC builds UP, that's why the relatively tiny city is one of the most populous in america

hehe mm

most cities in the western world still depend on the car to transport the population from the suburbs to wherever they're going

of course NYC and some European cities break this trend

D-line had its opening postponed for 6 months because the 4 shiny new Siemens SD-100s crapped out on test runs. Don't think that's a maintenance issue.
>German OVERengineering

I was being sarcastic.

Mine has 7.

E60 M5

What? I have a 90 hp econobox and even I have six gears.

>130 kph at 2600 rpm

6 isnt THAT common, but quite alot of new cars has it

the 6th gear is only for highways anyways

if you literally have 10x as many horsepower as a corolla, you are the text book example of a manchild.

the sixth gear is for women screeching into your ear to slow down on highways.

pretty sure the vast majority of cars have 5 gears with 6 being the second most common.
anything else is practically non-existant nowadays.

Don't think you can get standard anymore on the 5 series and in Canada, no M5 option for 2018?

Mine has 5 gears from 2000.
The V6 option had 6 gears.

>tfw my father made a 1000km trip to Berlin with an A6 and still had 35% fuel left

4.5L/100km? Sounds like a little dodgy.

That sounds about impossible even for a diesel A6.

Im the one with the old shitbox, my father drives an A6 C7 3L diesel.

It's doable if you aren't driving 150 km/h

My motorcycle doesn't get that on the flat, let alone through the Alps.

Manuals would probably no longer exist if hobbyist didn't constantly shit themselves at the thought of not feeling cool while driving.

Im sure it is, he was alone so there's no weight and we don't live in the alps.
It's 40 minutes to Germany after that it's just flat.

Also it's not AWD so even less weight. I don't know all the specs though.

there, you should have specified "distances 10-200km"
and even then, public transportations or minivans with full occupancy are more efficient and practical.

Ouch.

But seriously dude, that feel when you kick it into fifth...

>When you're on a hill but you think you can start without pulling the handbrake and the car starts to slowly roll downhill

Manual is superior in every way. Prove me wrong.
Pro tip: You can't

Manual is only for Initial D LARPING autists

>This is what autotragic drivers think

I often hear that it's not the gear stick that confuses people, but the "third" pedal(the clutch).

>i have two feet, so why are there THREE pedals?

>stop on a hill
>start sweating a little
didn't help my instructor didn't tell me about using the handbrake and I didn't think about it for the first 6 months and had to press all three pedals like a retard

>unironically thinking manual is superior
it's fun, I'll give you that, but once you've swapped to automatic you cannot go back to manual

t. autofag

Remember seeing an old, presumably soviet car with transfer case.

In all seruiousness, I get why some people like auto, and I'm not trying to be a hipster here, but I really hate when a car is doing shit for you instead of you telling the car what to do. I dunno, maybe i'm explaining it badly, but i prefer to control my car instead of just using the wheel to turn it.

You got the "fag"-part rigth

It'll be a bit sad when every vehicle I drive has an electric drive and consequently no gears but I'll get over it

>I only have 4

What are you driving? Something from the 60s?