All of these people responding that they prefer auto so they can eat or otherwise not pay attention in the car are the best (only?) argument for why everyone should drive manual.
Whatever your transmission preference is, if you’re not engaged in driving you shouldn’t be on the road!
yea I actually do cause he probably has more skill then the rest of the drivers on the road and plus he ain’t gonna kill anyone but himself if he crashes horribly
You can eat and not pay attention with a manual transmission, I don’t know why we’d pretend you can’t. If you’re just on the highway cruising both are just going to be in one gear all the time.
Either way, the problem is that people have to drive even if they don’t want to engage. The popularity of automatic transmissions proves that (to most Americans at least) cars are an appliance and something people do because they have to. Fuck cars.
All of these people responding that they prefer auto so they can eat or otherwise not pay attention in the car are the best (only?) argument for why everyone should drive manual.
Whatever your transmission preference is, if you’re not engaged in driving you shouldn’t be on the road!
I can drive my manual and eat at the same time just fine, thankyouverymuch :) I think I once submitted a pull request while on the road…
git driving: not even once
I assure you, as someone who has been driving a manual for years now, I can definitely eat a burger and drive while my mind wanders heh
true. when did the chad drink driving get replaced with soy ‘distracted’ driving
This is why I trust motorcyclists more than cars. A manual doesn’t change this problem, a motorcycle does.
Ah yes those trustworthy cyclists going 30mph above the speed limit while weaving through traffic
That’s how you know they’re paying attention!
That’s a different problem (that doesn’t really exist where I live)
only to get rear ended by a 2 ton Nissan Altima with no bumpers doing 140
yea I actually do cause he probably has more skill then the rest of the drivers on the road and plus he ain’t gonna kill anyone but himself if he crashes horribly
“he came outta nowhere officer I didn’t even see him!”
You can eat and not pay attention with a manual transmission, I don’t know why we’d pretend you can’t. If you’re just on the highway cruising both are just going to be in one gear all the time.
Either way, the problem is that people have to drive even if they don’t want to engage. The popularity of automatic transmissions proves that (to most Americans at least) cars are an appliance and something people do because they have to. Fuck cars.
It’s better to be skilled at distractive driving than being unskilled.