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Downshift, handbrake, powerslide around old woman, blue spark boost.
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Seriously though am I the only one that knows how to slow a car down by downshifting?
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Dec 15, 2016 02:49
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stephenfry posted:The skills you have are going to be lost to humanity within a century. You're like a longbowman or a trireme oarsman. I've only ever driven an automatic actually. Besides, as long as motorsports exist, driving skills aren't going to be lost. People still know fencing and archery for sporting reasons, even though they are entirely irrelevant for combat purposes these days. Airline pilots are required because autopilot doesn't know how to drift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvt7hP5a-0 Gimli Glider is a fascinating case and somewhat related to the thread since the pilot steered into a guard rail after landing to avoid running over kids on bicycles. Concordat has issued a correction as of 08:12 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Dec 15, 2016 08:08
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:That's extremely cool, it reminds me of a show I've watched a few times called Air Disasters. Very well made and goes into great detail about the failures that led to crashing as well as the efforts of the pilots to mitigate the place they found themselves in. I'm pretty sure that clip is from that exact show, or at least a British rebroadcast of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcOyfxuWvo If you want to watch the full episode that was trimmed from. stephenfry posted:well put me in the bad driver box, I don't know how to force a downshift in an automatic Downshifting in an automatic usually involves moving the shifter past drive. Every automatic I've driven has numbers past it on the shifter, though maybe some don't? My current car has a dumb "Geartronic" feature in it, namely it is an automatic transmission but if you move the shifter to the right of D, there's a little spot you can push up or down to change gears one at a time, but there's no clutch and it limits what gears you can shift to based on your speed, so its pretty much pointless. If you drive a car with a continuously variable transmission (they exist and are kinda weird) or no transmission at all (Teslas and other electric cars mostly) I guess you're hosed in a "brakes cut" situation. Maybe I'm just a weirdo and thought of downshifting cause I often have dreams where I'm driving and my brakes stop working and I'm left trying to stop the car with other means. Concordat has issued a correction as of 03:32 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Dec 17, 2016 03:18
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stephenfry posted:that is weird. car dreams are often about psychological progress. if you never get out of the car (or any other form of personal transport) it apparently means a lot of work unbroken by leisure or play in your future. And trouble with one particular system of a vehicle (that can't be easily anthropomorphised, like wheels for limbs) apparently signifies forthcoming bad news from a friend. It sounds like you have had emotional trauma and a serious self-assessment coming to a head for a long time. I think it means you are gay. I was in a car accident where someone hit my front left tire while I was making a right turn into the right lane of a two-lane road (they made an illegal lane change in the intersection) and despite holding my foot on the brake, drove over the curb and into a shrub.
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Self driving cars are going to be poo poo for a long rear end time just like how touchscreen displays, portable phones, and VR were played around with in the 80s and 90s but were too godawful to be used for anything till almost 20 years later.
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