Timeline for How easy is it to find a manual car in North America?
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| Dec 27, 2017 at 14:47 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | @errantlinguist I think that is mainly distracted driving, quite independent of the transmission type. Some Californian salespeople deal with all their phone messages while in traffic jams. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 14:41 | comment | added | errantlinguist | @PatriciaShanahan darn it-- I'd thought that I finally understood how Californians can be so erratic even when moving at 2mph through perpetual traffic jams. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 14:38 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | @errantlinguist Normally, no. There is one exception. Some slopes, especially in parking structures, can be steep enough that the car would roll back as the driver's right foot moves to the accelerator. In that case, I put my left foot on the brake until I have a little pressure on the accelerator. The point of my comment is not just to be not-using your left foot. It is to consciously and deliberately plant the left foot to prevent any reflex attempt to press the clutch pedal. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 14:32 | comment | added | errantlinguist | @PatriciaShanahan do they actually teach you to brake with your left foot in an automatic? -- that sounds like a recipe for disaster. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 10:25 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | One key safety trick I used when I transitioned from manual to automatic: Plant your left foot very firmly on the floor. Drive right foot only. | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 15:08 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 26, 2017 at 14:33 | answer | added | Jim MacKenzie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 12:48 | comment | added | brhans | Considering your 'feeling of safety angle' (without making a judgement as to its validity), consider what might happen if you feel the need to make a quick/reflexive gear change (and I'm assuming you'r also coming from a country where you drive on the 'correct side of the road' ;) ) - You'll put your foot on the clutch and then whack your left hand against the door - because that's where your unconscious mind expects the gear stick to be, then after you've recovered from your WTF moment you'll have to change hands and also remember that the lower gears are now towards you, not away from you. | |
| Jul 30, 2017 at 23:15 | answer | added | Bruce | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 22:07 | answer | added | Loren Pechtel | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 20:52 | answer | added | Steffen Roller | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 20:34 | comment | added | errantlinguist | That's my main fear: true to market economics, things no one wants to buy are generally treated as junk, and Americans collectively don't seem to want to buy manual transmissions... And getting a car at a junkyard isn't my idea of "quality". | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 19:54 | comment | added | phoog | A quick look in online classifieds in the NYC area suggests that there are some, but it will of course depend on your price range and on your criteria for a "quality" used car. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 19:38 | history | asked | errantlinguist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |