Manual Trasmission: Archaic and Unsafe?

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Posted by Kaidreas on Jan-27-2006 19:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
People who don't know how to use stick shouldn't even be driving.

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I don't think keeping you attention to switching gear will help you be a careful driver, you just have to pay attention to what's on/off the road and what's the driver behind you doing.
how does a automatic work actually? does it really know what to do??? just accelerate and let the automatic do the rest?

Posted by est on Jan-27-2006 19:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
can we get some mothafreakin sources on this research.

Ive heard both stories and im always too lazy to search for the actual study. Most of the 'studies' people hear are from secondary news sources....which suck ass.

Sure thing! Here's a couple of review links and some select references. Have a field day...

http://www.psych.utah.edu/AppliedCognitionLab/
http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/inf...hone_report.pdf

Strayer, D. L., & Johnston, W. A. (2001). Driven to distraction: Dual-task studies of simulated
driving and conversing on a cellular phone . Psychological Science,12, 462-466.

Strayer, D. L., Drews, F. A., & Crouch, D. J. (In press). Fatal distraction? A comparison of the
cell-phone driver and the drunk driver. In D. V. McGehee, J. D. Lee, & M. Rizzo (Eds.)

Redelmeier, D. A., & Tibshirani, R. J. (1997) Association between cellular-telephone calls and
motor vehicle collisions. The New England Journal of Medicine, 336, 453-458.

Brown, I. D., Tickner, A. H., & Simmonds, D. C. V. (1969). Interference between concurrent tasks
of driving and telephoning. Journal of Applied Psychology, 53(5), 419-424.

Alm, H. and Nilsson, H. 1990. Changes in driver behaviour as a function of handsfree mobile
telephones: A simulator study. DRIVE Project V 10 17 (BERTIE), Report No. 47.

Posted by squirrelly on Jan-27-2006 19:59:

I just got a new car in November and it's stick and it was the best decision I've ever made. I barely talked on the phone then but now I never do... I use the stick as an excuse haha. I'm a LOT more focused when I'm driving, and it keeps my attention on the road. I have some serious ADD and when I drove auto I would pay attention to everything BUT the road. Just because some people suck at driving doesn't mean that sticks cause accidents. I'm sure on the ration of accidents with cars that are manual vs cars that are auto, auto wins on the most accidents.

Posted by Floorfiller on Jan-27-2006 20:01:

i love manuals...it's like playing a game....BRRRRRRR...brrrrrrr

Posted by Ian on Jan-27-2006 20:10:

quote:
Originally posted by Floorfiller
i love manuals...it's like playing a game....BRRRRRRR...brrrrrrr

Yeah but sadly games & cars aren't the same, as in we can't drive on the wrong side of the road & run over people

Posted by nchs09 on Jan-27-2006 20:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Yeah but sadly games & cars aren't the same, as in we can't drive on the wrong side of the road & run over people
technically... if u hit a pedestrian and u have a stick...

since u drive on the wrong side of the road.. id be like a game

Posted by SuspicionVandit on Jan-27-2006 21:51:

I am confident driving with manual.
I am scared as fuck when I do automatics

Posted by Moongoose on Jan-27-2006 22:17:

Its not like you have to to use the shifter every 10 seconds anyway. Seriously one must be really incompetant driver to write an article like that.

Posted by biznology on Jan-27-2006 22:19:

yeah it sounds like my least favorite driver - the type that think the gas is an on/off button, not an analog control that allows various types of input, surprisingly just like a clutch.

read his review of the new M5, apparently that car sucks, because he cannot use it properly|

Posted by noikeee on Jan-27-2006 22:23:

I'd like to see this idiot driving an automatic over here with all the elevations we have.

Posted by raph93 on Jan-28-2006 00:23:

i took 3 days to use to the Automatic Gear of the rental, in France I used to drive a manual

Posted by Coup on Jan-28-2006 00:29:

ive been driving an auto for a few months now, having drove a manual for 3 years. What this twats blabbering on about is total shit. Changing gear becomes like breathing, u pay no attention to the dial, or to the gearstick, u change like its second nature.

Theres too much shit to even bother to defend his points. Id argue that an auto actually makes u more lethargic while driving because u have no gears to opperate which was a big chunk of driving a car.

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