How America lost its love for the stick shift

Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by rpcope1 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:54PM (#17964474)

> Why not take away power steering? Because it would make it harder.

What? Have you even driven anything that's not a big truck without power steering (and I don't mean a car with power steering disabled). It's not _that_ big a difference, if at all.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by taeric on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:10PM (#17964562)

Have you seen a 16 year old try? Many failures are an adding up of a bunch of "not a big difference" differences. Why take that risk?

You would clearly stop short of taking away vision. Why not make people drive with a vehicle that doesn't have a rear window? All told, shouldn't be that big of a deal. That said, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/02/backup-... was a headline story for a reason.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by bacon_waffle on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:02PM (#17965288)

I had a mini for a year or two; one of the little ones that would just about fit inside the back of that BMW thing they call a "mini" now. I could see how it could surprise someone who's learning to drive, or isn't used to a car without power steering - the wheel is substantially harder to turn when the car isn't rolling.

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