Comment Re: Even an idiot can be right (Score 1) 89
AI has breadth of skills humans cannot offer. I used AI to write a 1000 line Excel VBA. I don't know, don't know anyone who knows, or reall want to know, Excel VBA
Comment Re:Stick driving requires some discipline (Score 1) 187
Paying attention to stick shifts is something done by people who only very rarely drive them. For people who drive stick shifts daily they don't think about them at all, it's just a natural reaction.
And even people who don't drive stick regularly (but know how) quickly stop having to pay attention. I haven't owned a stick shift since the mid 90's, but I often get them when renting cars overseas. It takes a day or two of paying attention, and then it just becomes automatic and effortless.
there was no clutch. I just kicked the footwell for no reason.
BTDT when coming home from a trip where I'd been driving a manual for a couple of weeks.
Comment Re:60%? (Score 1) 187
Just about every motorcycle rider has intimate knowledge of manual shifting. If they are included, 60 percent could be about right.
About 3% of registered road vehicles are motorcycles. When you include dirt bikes the number of riders is higher, but it's still very low compared to the number of automobile drivers. I don't think motorcycle riders are likely to shift the overall numbers very much.
Comment Re:Can I pay him not to post? (Score 1) 210
I wish it were that simple.
It is.
The problem is that you, the brave and the free of today are like the putin subjects - whining all the time that 'it ain't my job to watch over democracy' - so your politics gets more and more corrupted. And you get fucked.
Deservedly.
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit, I see.
Comment Re:I gave up on manual transmissions decades ago (Score 1) 187
I don't know why your reading comprehension is so bad. I would have totally preferred it if any of them knew how to drive a manual or wanted to learn how. But they didn't. How does that make *me* sexist?
Comment Re:Outsourcing pollution (Score 1) 26
Please look up what 3rd world means.
Comment exactly correct (Score 1) 26
Data centers need to pay for their own energy increase, be closed cooling systems, and not allow withing 5 miles of a residential area, and residence can't be built within 5 miles of a data center.
Comment Re:Ban automatics (Score 1) 187
A contagion tube that slower and vastly more inconvenient. Plus a bigger polluter.
People pushing for everyone to get on the bus have no clue about buses.
Comment Yes you will Jim (Score 1) 187
It's just a matter of time. You aren't going to ae a car that receives less then 1 percent of sales. For example.
Comment Re:No automatic Ford? (Score 1) 187
OH no, did the EV boogie man make an EV model of a car you like? tell, is this EV boogie man in the room with you right now?
Electric mustang concept is fine. There implementation was poor.
Comment Re:I gave up on manual transmissions decades ago (Score 1) 187
wow. Did no take like for sexist douches to post.
Comment Re:I'll die with my standard transaxle (Score 1) 187
" Standards made your mind more limber and aware. "
lol, no.
Comment Re:We also don't use carbeurators anymore (Score 1) 187
lol, no. You watch too many youtube vidoes.
Comment Re:Ban automatics (Score 1) 187
lol, no. don't be daft. Manual transmission is an unneeded skill, not a hard skill.
Do you think in the 70s and 80s there wasn't traffic?
Comment Re:Theft deterrents (Score 1) 187
Incorrect, 70+% of crime is committed by people over 25. Nice try.
