Off topic but I’m really happy I’m seeing more and more mastodon screenshots instead of Twitter. Also helps me find new peeps to follow.
Someone clearly has never had to hill start a manual transmission vehicle…
Don’t you use the handbrake for a hill start? Kinda awkward stepping on both the brake and gas pedals while one foot is on the clutch.
No, I hold down the clutch and the brake, then slowly start releasing the clutch, and when the engine starts struggling I release the brake and jump to the gas pedal to get more revs in, release the clutch all the way, and hopefully start moving forward instead of stalling the engine.
Did not know there was another way.
Or just hold the brake, put in gear, then release the brake, rev up the engine to 3k rpm and release the clutch. Not as good for the motor and gearbox but faster lol
Edit: Ya’ll, if one knows what they do, and knows the car, speeding the motor up to a specific amount, often 2-2.5k rpm, and releasing the clutch a specific amount, takes less time than gravity needs to overcome the inertia. I’m almost always literally starting while practically still standing, because it takes ~0.1 second to do said things, if you know the car and its sweet spots.
https://giphy.com/gifs/f1-car-smoking-6yxmDC0iysMyeCy01M
why is embedding gifs so hard
Because giphy does not provide a real interface to embed a gif. One needs to go to their site to view it.
Except the smoke would be coming from the clutch in most cars.
Smart drivers do. I don’t know why anyone does the fast foot shuffle.
Rev match downshifts.
Flashback to my Del Sol where I had to brake+heel tap the accelerator to downshift. Still took less coordination than using a damn touch screen infotainment system
I’m not sure what this means. How do you down shift when you’re stopped?
There are a few possibilities:
- It’s faster, especially if the handbrake isn’t applied already.
- Some cars, like the one I drove most of the time in driving school, have an automation to keep braking for a second, so one just needs to: Brake, Clutch, Put in gear, Release Brake, Rev up engine a bit, Release Clutch.
- My current car’s Handbrake is basically non-functional, so I have to do the fast foot shuffle.
Got to learn how to do the heel-toe technique
Yep, can do that, or heel-toe the clutch and break if you’re not a fuckin wuss
Heal-toe is basically that. Frankly imo 99% of the time, just be fast.
Break what? Break dance?
If you shift directly from drive into reverse while moving it opens the debug menu.
That is probably how you really take a screenshot of the main display in a Tesla
Instructions unclear, I pressed the clutch also and my car booted into engineering mode.
adb sideload magisk.zip
Lurn to spel
I can’t unsee the visual of me trying this now.
Old school way to do a burnout with an automatic transmission.
Beyond the triune screenshots of twitter, reddit, and tumblr, a new challenger appears (albeit in the shadow of Twitter). That challenger is Mastadon. What does this foretell for the discourse?
Tried it, reset my oil change indicator. Following for more car facts.
