I was way on the slow end of the spectrum with a car that was over 20 seconds to 60 and even then never had difficulty merging or felt it was dangerously slow. Only time it was an issue was when I got honked at for "hogging" the passing lane while trying to catch up to my mom up a hill.
I have tonsay that i don't really like Auto gearboxes espacially the dsg from vw they are unrelyable and bring a worse fuel consumption than a Manual my dsg from the Octavia broke after 40000km i got a new One from Skoda and the Sold the car and got a Manual Challenger wich has Just 2 litres more fuel consumption than the octavia
Totally not my daughter. reminds me of my little Bluetooth obd2 diagnostic tool, except instead of a fun gadget, it's a not fun gadget. I want to hack it to send alerts to my friends when I'm driving recklessly as a way to auto brag about my hoonerie. don't Zuckerberg me on that.
Yeah that what I have trouble with still. I guess a good tip is to keep calm and not focus on it too much. Neutral to first is hard but every other gear is easy.
Does your Civic that you drive have a tacho, in my experience having a tacho makes it slightly easier because it gives you an indication of how smooth you are being. It just takes a bit of time. On the L's program used in South Australia, about 45 of my 60 something hours so far have been with an Auto car but because my first experience on the road was with my little manual excel, it has just stuck with me like riding a bike. I occasionally do a little skid up the driveway which helps a bit with clutch control but you probably shouldn't do that especially if it isn't your car.
Yep has a factory tacho. I think all of the NZ new 6th gen LXi manuals came with a tachometer as standard.
They did. my first dx hatch didn't have one. spent 50 bucks on the lx cluster. now I have a 99 crv cluster in my coupe. red line at 6700. confused little cluster that only reads to 8k.
That's just really creepy, what is wrong with simple trust anyway, you'd never learn from mistakes otherwise. Not to mention couldn't you just unplug it inbetween sick skids?
Only manual transmission that I ever had a problem with was in my friends 95 S10, it had a 2.2 and an NV3500. And by problem, I couldn't take off to save my life, But I attribute most of that to 12 horsepower and 2:88 rear gear, and partially on the clutch pedal having 9 feet of travel in it, my knee was up in the dash before I started moving. I would say though that my red Cummins Dodge would be a great truck to learn on, since it's nearly impossible to kill it, you can have it in low or first, and just let the clutch out, and it'll take off.
My excel doesn't have a tacho, the model i have which is the GX (i think) has the option for a tacho but it doesn't have one. Picked up another excel the other day, that doesn't have a tacho. For a road car that I will probably only rev to like 4000 or 4500 it doesn't really matter as much but with the other one that i got for Circuit racing my dad will probably wire up a tacho to see what revs it does on the track.
Maybe I'm just spoiled then. Except for my accord I've mostly driven my uncles truck and my aunts Mercedes, both which have a V8. Having the ability to just mash the pedal and get out of a situation is really nice in those cars. And sure, it was operator error pulling out too early in front of that truck, but having the power of a V8 on tap makes merging and daily driving much easier.
I'm aware of how torque converter autos work and in fact those are the kind im referring to but modern autos are almost as efficient as manuals, and even if you are saving $100 per year on gas would that even cover the costs of a clutch replacement And yeah, I agree less so on the learning from mistakes part, I rarely make mistakes but when I do I dont learn from them. What worries me is if that kind of technology was forced to be implemented on all cars and was used to automatically give speeding tickets...
I'm sure the app will alert you if it loses connection with the obd thing. That wouldn't make a helicopter parent very happy. I don't think it even alerts for skids. It never mentioned anything about g sensors or abs engagement, only speed and gps and such. As long as you aren't doing sick peels and getting the speedo up past 60 or whatever, the app won't alert. I really hate this type of stuff. We're trying to make it impossible for kids to be kids. It's part of growing up.
I'm lucky. My mother never did any of that, even after I got a nasty ticket and even though I admit to ripping parking brake skids at every opportunity.
I got into a impact with my mom in the car and she didnt even bat an eye or say anything... and tbh I feel like crashing into a stationary car while you are just going 15mph around the block is worse than trying to have fun in a car, having fun is dangerous but intentional and is a choice, being the kind of driver who crashes into a stationary object while driving 10mph UNDER the speed limit and paying complete attention to the road is just flat out dangerous and unintentional and you cant choose not to be that kind of driver.
I think that going under the limit should be fined as harshly as going under the limit. If you are going 45kmh on a stretch of road that is assigned a 60kmh limit, you are not only holding up traffic, you make people pissed off which can make people attempt stupid and dangerous manoeuvres to get around you.
Or backing into your other car, or backing into your neighbor's mailbox. . . while you are looking right at it. I can't say I am oblivious to what you describe.
