How America lost its love for the stick shift

Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by jhayward on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:30PM (#17964641)

I have somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 hours operating a stick vehicle in high congestion traffic. I went to engineering school and studied traffic both academically, and experientially. Yes, I understand traffic better than you do.

Do you understand traffic? I pretty much doubt it.

No, 99% of people driving in traffic aren't idiots. About 5% are, and that's all it takes. My most pleasant finding from all those years of driving was to note that the vast, vast majority of Houston daily commuters were absolutely pro drivers when it comes to congestion.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by 0x00000000 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:56PM (#17964751)

So how does tailgating people and braking hard and often not make traffic worse? Or is it the same? You didn't explain why you think slowing down more gradually is not better or how tailgating does not cause traffic.

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by brenschluss on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:43PM (#17964695)

What do you think about this article? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607841/a-single-autonomou...

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Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by neuralRiot on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:57PM (#17965443)

I have more than 35 years driving all kinds of vehicles and what i've learned is that "all the other drivers are wrong" or at least is what everyone says. Probably we all need to learn to better ourselves and be a bit more patient and courteous.

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