That's right. Blizzard.
Your friend,
Vi
OMG, you might have to ship their body home!!
. With an automatic, you can only downshift a gear by stomping the pedal to the floor
So those numbers on my automatic stick saying 1,2,3 are just for show and don't actually do anything?!
In a manual, if you start going down a decent grade and you throw the car down a gear, the engine acts as a weak constant brake. A side effect of this is that you are shifting more weight onto the front wheels due to the braking action, which increases the quality of contact between the rubber and the road for steering.
My car is a rear wheel drive, so no, this is not an effect of all cars. Yet, if I use the brakes I brake with all four wheels, with more breaking at the front (as is evidenced by needing to change the pads more on the front).
What if it had been a real girl?
You stated you need it for backup, so use a backup service. They have the benefit of alerting you when backups occur and do not occur, can sync as little as every 15 minutes, provide up to 7 years of snapshots.
With block level synchronisation, it encrypts the data before leaving the server and I believe it is PCI compliant.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.