• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock

    To be fair, it was mostly that one idiot who thought it should disqualify students from sitting exams…

    Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

    And I agree. Just like analog clocks and indeed internal combustion engine cars in general, manual transmissions are technology that used to be the norm but is now old fashioned, unnecessary except for rare use cases, and fast approaching obsolete.

    • Donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      By modern automotive standards, manual transmissions are already obsolete. That said… They’re so damn fun to drive, and you feel way more in control because in some sense you are. Just not in the power and fuel savings that the machine picks