• bigschnitz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!

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      1 year ago

      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

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      1 year ago

      This is why I trust motorcyclists more than cars. A manual doesn’t change this problem, a motorcycle does.

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      1 year ago

      true. when did the chad drink driving get replaced with soy ‘distracted’ driving

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      1 year ago

      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.