How America lost its love for the stick shift

Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by taeric on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:18PM (#17963901)

I know what it means. And I've seen some folks do it fast enough to catch followers by surprise. Especially at night.

To that point, I'm not trying to claim it is insurmountably dangerous. It is more dangerous that just using the brakes, though.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by UncleEntity on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:33PM (#17963993)

Yep, one of my favorite ways to mess with tailgaters was to drop a gear or two and drop the clutch. *of course not recommending anyone ever do this since it's dangerous as hell.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by jacquesm on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:09PM (#17964229)

Idea: have the brakes come on when the car decelerates independent of whether or not the brakes are engaged. Simple a sensor that detects deceleration in excess of 'X' Gs will enable the brake lights.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by bacon_waffle on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:35PM (#17965185)

These exist, for example:

https://gearbrake.com/collections/shop/products/gearbrake-sm...

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by lagadu on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:23AM (#17967359)

Some electrics do that because the regeneration system makes them lose a lot of speed quickly so they automatically turn them on.

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