Cars & Transportation Learning to drive manual

[Plugger35]

Self driven cars are really the logical next step. A lot of humans cannot be trusted behind the wheel of a car. Once the technology is refined, it will make road travel far safer.

I'm not so sure about that.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...s/news-story/6c4d7120a72df02bf5a9cf7c4f026d04

A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a Silicon Valley street, a fender-bender that appears to be the first time one of the tech company’s vehicles caused an accident during testing on city roads.

Google accepted some responsibility for the collision, which occurred on Valentine’s Day when one of the Lexus SUVs it has outfitted with sensors and cameras hit the side of the bus. No one was injured, according to an accident report Google wrote and submitted to California’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

 

[Kram]

 

[Jobe Watson]

I'm not so sure about that.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...s/news-story/6c4d7120a72df02bf5a9cf7c4f026d04

As I said, once the technology is refined. The computer code has already been updated in the wake of this incident.

The Google cars have racked up millions of kilometres of driving and the only accidents they have been involved in were the fault of other drivers.

 

[Plugger35]

As I said, once the technology is refined. The computer code has already been updated in the wake of this incident.

The Google cars have racked up millions of kilometres of driving and the only accidents they have been involved in were the fault of other drivers.

As I said before, it will only be safer if all the cars on the road are self driving cars, if you still have idiot humans driving cars there will still be accidents.

 

[Jobe Watson]

As I said before, it will only be safer if all the cars on the road are self driving cars, if you still have idiot humans driving cars there will still be accidents.

Absolutely.

I don't think that day is that far away though. The technology is basically ready right now. Just need to get the laws changed, and get to the point of production where autonomous cars are affordable to the average consumer. This will happen as more and more companies get behind them (Ford and Toyota, amongst others, are expected to join the market by 2020). I think by 2025 autonomous cars will be fairly common and by 2040 they will be almost the only thing on the road.

 

[Syd]

So when are all you he-men who drive girly cars with automatics going to start letting your women be serviced by machines because you are incapable of driving them too?

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Syd never left the 80s did he?

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

The fear I have with driverless cars is, if they are all computer/algorithm based, would they not be vulnerable to viruses? Could be catastrophic if someone is able to hack the software and execute malicious code/commands.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Syd never left the 80s did he?

I think it's an American thing.

 

[Syd]

Syd never left the 80s did he?

Ah yes the 80's.

in my 20's throughout, spent a large chunk living in Europe degrading myself and women in various countries, great music and movies, first wife (and divorce), birth of my eldest child and my eventual migration to Australia leading to more self and local female degradation.

Why would I want to leave the 80's??

I think it's an American thing.

Bless you.

 

[Borry]

You'd probably get people standing on the side of the road looking up how to do it on YouTube.

I am in the process of changing a tyre for the first time ever.

I havent needed to do one before.

I will be doing it via assistance from AANT.

Cant afford to **** it up.

You have to start from somewhere and that comes from learning.

 

[BotsMaster]

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/unca...hould-be-euthanised-to-prevent-embarrassment/

Study concludes men who can’t drive manual should be euthanised to prevent embarrassment

 

[Run n Spread]

I learnt to drive auto.

Had to learn manuel after. And couldn't do it. If I had to drive manual now I couldn't do it.

 

[Gigantic]

Learnt on auto and drove on auto until I got my unrestricted license.

Then went ahead and got myself a car with manual transmission, learnt how to drive it, and still driving it to this day.

My next car will probably be an automatic though. It's great to know how to drive manual, but these days there's not much point to driving one.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/unca...hould-be-euthanised-to-prevent-embarrassment/

Then there are men who can but don't coz we're lazy af campaigners

 

[rocker_oz33]

My neighbors had a sign on the back window of they're car saying "new to manual driving".

 

[ShanDog]

I would be ashamed of myself if I couldn't drive a manual car. And you should be too.

 

[revival_mode]

personal car is an auto. can drive manual and do regularly for work. taught myself on the job actually

 

[Shell]

Could not be stuffed learning manual, that's the honest truth.

Why do people buy manual cars anyway, pls explain.

 

[Kram]

With small cars they perform better even with modern autos. Older ones like ones from the 80s are especially terrible, takes away a heap of power from an already small engine.

Never driven a work ute in auto, there was the odd auto van at a place I worked many years ago but they were crap with no power in traffic especially when loaded up with weight.

 

[rocker_oz33]

When the kangaroo jumped into my wagon and it was in the shop getting fixed.
My brother gave a loan car it was a 1980 Mazda 121 but it was fuuuu automatic FFS would of been waay more fun if it was manual.
It was that slow at the lights anyone could run faster than it ....hills I thought it would roll back down them.

 

[RelaxMax]

What did you end up doing OP? PP34

 

[ShanDog]

Could not be stuffed learning manual, that's the honest truth.

Why do people buy manual cars anyway, pls explain.

For 100% control of fixed gearing, engine speeds and shifting.

If you don't enjoy driving for the sake of driving, then it won't mean much to you. However, understanding these aspects of driving a car is often unknown to people who have never learned to drive a manual (probably for the same reason - they don't care). When you spend tens of thousands of dollars to purchase a car (which is often the second most valuable asset people have behind real estate), thousands per year on running costs, maintenance, registration and insurance, and you are akin to a 1.5 tonne death machine sharing 3-4m of space with millions of other death machines and pedestrians, it's reprehensible to not have a functional knowledge of all mechanical and operational aspects of the motor vehicles and driving, yet that's often the case.

Plus, driving a manual makes you 30% cooler. It's science.

 

[MWPP]

We didn't own a manual car when I was a teenager , so I stuck to automatic . I'll probably never get around to getting my manual license (since I have no intention of ever buying or driving a manual car )

 

[PP34]

What did you end up doing OP? PP34

Got lazy and went auto.