If you don’t push your vehicle with your own physical strength, you can only suggest/“point” a car
Fred Flintstone may have been an asshole…but he sure knew how to drive!
I like you :)
Look at this amateur with power steering, automatic choke, and an electric starter.
Plenty of motorycles in this world with none of those things. You’re telling me you need a roof, too? I used to ride mine to school in the snow and the rain. Uphill, both ways!
and doors
If you’ve never used a hand crank to turn the engine over, you’ve never really started a car.
I mean- technically this is 100% true and I’m on board
Manual transmission is the norm outside of the US
I daily a manual and this is a braindead take
If your car is not drawn by animals, you are not driving it. You might be piloting or controlling it, but not driving it.
The cow keeps dropping the damn pencils IDK how you guys do this.
You need to haft it with an adamantium core shrouded in alfalfa straw as was passed down by the elders. The brush head should be made of the hair of it’s brethren to inspire a proper amount of reverence and fear
I don’t see the problem.
For those conveyances, I believe a bit of fermentation is required. Spicy writing utensils, as it were
Not an unpopular opinion, just gatekeeping.
yup. have driven rx7’s and vw bugs, it takes a certain set of skills but it’s nothing to be insulting about.
good luck with your clutch replacement dudes lol
Pfft, amateur.
If you can’t manually adjust ignition timing and air:fuel ratios you can’t really drive a car.
Are we talking points, HEI, or injection? I don’t often have my laptop with me for the latter.
Early cars had controls for ignition timing, sometimes on the steering column.
Yes, they did! My grandfather’s Ford did. I thought it was throttle when I was young because it made the engine sound change!
Ill upvote since the amish feel if you don’t use a harness you are just letting a machine drive.
Oh, we’re gatekeeping driving?
No, and if you learn manual, you’ll know what we mean!
If you can’t shift gears faster than 120ms you’re inferior to the automatic already.
You think f1 drivers are fucking around with a clutch? Get off your horse and realize everyone and their half siblings have moved on.
This is from a crusty guy who taught many a fine lady how to drive the ol stick shift. That was such a great pickup line.
F1 doesn’t use torque converted automatics or CVTs. They use much faster transmissions.
I don’t see where that was stated at all, just automatic.
And DCTs are definitely automatics.
There are other forms of automatic besides torque-converter based systems, even in the 50’s.
I thought F1 used sequential transmissions.
Driving has to involve a clutch? I’m very confused by this. Manual driver btw.
Gatekeepers be keepin gates.
You are absolutely allowed to money shift, rev-match “slot” your gears, anything you like. If you can handle the stick you have my respect.
I’m about as big a car enthusiast as a person can be. I’ve built everything, rock crawlers, drag cars, drift cars, and road race cars. I’ve had lowriders and lifted trucks. I’ve owned automatics, 4, 5, and 6 speed manuals, 3-speed column shift manuals, cvts, an electric car, and a push button shifted Chrysler imperial. I’ve driven cars, heavy machinery, boats, planes, and even a hovercraft one time.
While I love my manual cars, to say a person can’t drive until they learn to operate a manual is one of the dumbest opinions I’ve ever heard.
You know it was posted to “unpopular opinions”, yes?
It’s not that it’s unpopular, it’s that it’s objectively dumb.
Its actually not that unpopular of an opinion in car communities, it’s just a really stupid one held by stupid people.
And now it has been called a dumb opinion, too
This is kind of, by-definition, wrong, not just unpopular.
For the simple reason that even though I only tried to learn manual once, I can drive any electric car without issue.
Hell even before that, some people could drive trucks or buses or motorcycles, but not all people with driver’s licenses could.
If we came up with a different word for driving other types of cars, then it would make sense. But we didn’t, so driving just refers to the broad concept of operating various types of motor vehicles, usually at relatively high speed, but not exclusively.
And that’s quite frankly because even without manually operating a clutch, driving is still a huge skillset that most people struggle to excel at.
