Feed Dump: Teenagers Too Stupid to Steal Car

[sageoftruth]

My 11th grade English teacher tried to ban negative feedback on the units she chose to teach. It ended with everyone in class giving negative feedback. Nothing incites negative feedback like banning it.

Same goes for just about anything you try to ban. People don't like being told what to do (most of the time).

 

[sageoftruth]

I'd be freaked out too if there was a random guy in an animal mask. Sitting there. With its cold staring eyes.

For reference, this is the mask in question:

Spoiler

Whatever you do, DO NOT get in the back of that guy's van.

 

[Strazdas]

Tanks are in fact manual. actually, some got even 18 gears, manually switched.

also is manual so rare in NA? here automatic is a rarity thats even advertised more towards "handicap can drive now too" than anything else.

Most regular town cars in NA are automatic because A: Convenience, B: easy to learn, and C: less chance of someone to fuck up a gear change and stop in the middle of the road. A lot of the bigger machines such as farm tractors, semis, and some larger trucks use manual due to them being used in areas where they need to be able to change gears.

I have driven an automatic and i certainly understand the convienience.
As far as learning anf fucking up, all our driving test vehicles are manual. there is no "automatic only" license here, so you have to learn that regardless. Also automatic gearboxes are less realiable (as in, they break) which is quite important here. poor country, buy really used cars quite often. manual gearbox just lives longer. and is easier to fix too.

Never would have thought that most cars would be automatic anywhere, the more you know. Not that im against them, its just.... different.

 

[Trisha Lynn]

Right after I got my license at 16, I got my then-boyfriend to teach me how to drive a manual transmission. Using his super-janky Suzuki Samurai, I got rather good at it. And the major reason why I decided to learn was because of the time where my family only had one car, it was a manual, and my mother refused to learn how to drive it. So we couldn't really go anywhere far without my dad, and that really sucked in our non-pedestrian friendly Southern Californian suburb.

Note: This is also the reason why I stopped reading The Devil Wears Prada after the first or second page. The heroine is having a crying fit because she can't smoke a cigarette while driving her boss's super-awesome sports car because it's a manual, and she stalls out in the middle of Manhattan traffic. Because I can do that and she couldn't I instantly thought that the heroine would never become likable to me, and so I stopped reading it immediately.

 

[Randy Thomet]

US tanks have had automatic transmissions since at lease the M48A5. I have trained in that tank and the M60. I guess I'm a bit of an old fart.