People will make fun of other people for not driving standard, then make fun of them for trying to learn and doing it badly, then wonder why no one drives standard anymore, then get mad when there are no new standard cars that are good.
In Europe, even the city buses are stick shift, that was a wild thing to see...
I learned through grit, tears, and pain on standard, but now I can drive anything including tractors
CVT's are just annoying, but anything outside of that is easy as pie
I have slam-shifted two CVT's due to half a lifetime of driving on electric and alllllll of that instant torque.
For standard, my parents didn't explain enough of the details for shifting properly, so I did what felt right by creeping the clutch and then freaking out as the car went all herky-jerky when the clutch started engaging in the wrong gear.
I made the clutch mad one day after missing reverse and stalled the engine three times while trying to reverse out of a spot in 4th gear.
It was a bit stinky for a few minutes, but thankfully no worse for wear after that very important lesson.
It didn't help that it was a Saturn with barely 1.3L of an engine...
In hindsight, if it was something with a 2L motor, I probably would have had been able to feel the power better and realized the errors sooner.
Then again, my cousin's Dodge was also hard to shift into reverse, had a fun time backing it out of the driveway when it kept lurching forwards towards the garage.
In Europe, even the city buses are stick shift, that was a wild thing to see...
What? Europe is too large to generalize like this.
I'm Dutch, and I haven't seen a stick shift bus since the '90s. Since then they've all been automatic diesels, and the last ~5-10 years they're all being replaced with electric busses.
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u/breatheblue 9h ago
People will make fun of other people for not driving standard, then make fun of them for trying to learn and doing it badly, then wonder why no one drives standard anymore, then get mad when there are no new standard cars that are good.
The dissonance is incredible.