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Comment Re:No stick shift option (Score 1) 165

Every automatic suffers from lag. You press the pedal and you have to wait for it to spin up before it engages and starts moving. This is especially apparent if you ever have to rapidly accelerate such as getting onto a highway. You press the pedal hard, there's a lag as the car spins up, then suddenly you lurch forward once it tries to catch up.

This does not happen in a stick. You press the pedal and it goes.

I use regularly use gearing to control my speed rather than braking, something people do endlessly. They're always braking. They brake going down hills. They brake going up hills. They brake at green lights. They brake for a squirrel a quarter mile down the road. Using gearing, that eliminates large portions of braking. For example, if I see a light is red, rather than putting on my brake, I shift to a lower gear and let the gears slow me down until I get closer when I then use my brakes to come to a stop.

With a stick shift, the gear never changes until you change it. You don't get the back and forth uncertainty of automatics. If I need to be in a third gear pull because I'm going up a hill, guess what. That's what gear I stay in the entire time.

There a whole host of reasons a stick shift is important me. These are just a few of them.

Comment No stick shift option (Score 0) 165

Since Hyundai no longer makes cars with a stick shift, I've already told the dealer I won't be buying another one. Not that they care, but at least the guy was sympathetic to my view.

Based on the picture, that would drive me insane not to have the speedometer and such directly in front of me. i constantly check it to see how far below the speed limit I'm driving because of the CR-V in front of me.

Comment Re:A republic, if you can keep it... (Score 5, Informative) 233

Well, there is the hope with new elections the executive will be disciplined (whether that is better or worse, who can say) and Trump can spend the remainder of days hounded by lawsuits.

Better get cracking on it now though before this becomes the new norm.

You can forget that. Texas is already removing nearly 100 polling places in one county alone, which is totally not voter suppression according to Republicans.

Meanwhile, DHS is hunting for that elusive "vote fraud" the Pedo in Chief has been whining about for the past six years, yet has never been able to show said "fraud".

And don't forget the recent change to mail-in voting where the federal government will decide whether you're eligible to vote based on a nebulous list maintained by the government, and the Postal Service gets to decide if they're going to deliver your mail-in ballot.

When you're done holding your breath, let us know.

Comment Excuse me? (Score 2) 185

"They want things done quickly, and they're multitasking,"

Then why are they using touchscreens? Want to turn on the radio? Press a button? Want higher or lower volume? Turn the knob. Want more a/c? Turn the dial. I'm not sure how things can get done more quickly than that using a touchscreen.

As for multitasking, what other tasks are they doing when they're supposed to be driving with their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road? Are they making omelets?

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