• deafboy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    a turn signal will soon be unnecessary with the advent of self-driving

    That’s like not including a stick for the manual transmission, because the automatic one is just around the corner.

    I wish I possessed this kind of optimism in my daily life :D

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      10 months ago

      I enjoy driving stick, but stick will likely not last forever. We will not be able to burn fossil fuels for that much longer in the grand scheme of things. Electric vehicles usually have a single speed transmission, so there are literally no gears to change. Perhaps there may be an alternative fuel vehicle that still has multiple speed transmission, in which case stick could still exist, though how many car manufacturers would make them?

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Probably no one, but there is nothing preventing from enthusiasts from hooking an electric drive motor up to a traditional manual transmission just to be perverse. I would.

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          10 months ago

          What would the manual transmission do? Unless you literally mean it doesn’t impact the cars driving and is just there for you to move around. Electric vehicles are not changing gears, so there are no gears to hook up a manual transmission to

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            10 months ago

            It would give you a manual transmission driving experience. Nothing more.

            (There are no gears in an internal combustion engine, either. At least not in the context you’re thinking of. The gears are in the transmission. That’s why anyone in the Commonwealth calls it a “gearbox.”)

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        10 months ago

        Even in petrol cars automatic transmissions are more common than manual for new cars now. Automatic has just become better and better, and there’s just very little reason to have a manual these days.