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[–] [email protected] 306 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's the clutch and brake pedals...

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (28 children)

USA citizen having no clue about the existence of manual gear-box in vehicles, probably.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

US stick driver here, equally disappointed in the picture.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think it makes the whole meme funnier personally

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are literally dozens of us!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They just added the caption. If the creator of this were capable of making the drawing, they would do something more with their life than memes.

You can't find an image of pushing the brake and throttle at the same time on wikihow.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I haven't driven a stick in over a decade and this meme upsets me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you drastically underestimate the number of gearheads in the States. Makes sense, given we have incredibly limited public transport. Currently have 3 manuals in my driveway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Of course, it a joke based on the fact that manual gearbox is, even to this day, the standard in Europe. I would be very surprise to meet someone with a driver license who can't drive manual. It seems in the USA manual driving is a hobby for car enthusiast. But what do I know? I have never step foot on the new continent.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fools, this actually reboots the car into safe mode!

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the clutch and break you fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a brake, you fucking idiot

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I needa take a brake from the internet, you fucking idiots

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to fuck an idiot, you brakes

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm an idiot you fucking breaks

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You idiot, I'm a fucking brakes

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Breaks a I'm you idiot fucking

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I need to fuck an idiot in breaks

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The image shows the clutch and brake being pressed though...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Probably a gen-z trying to make jokes about cars.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Turn the car off, shift to 4th gear, press break, break and windshield wiper, then turn it back on to enter Developer Mode

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You joke but my old FJ Cruiser requires you to turn the key to accessory, turn it off, turn the key back to accessory, open and close the door three times, turn the key back off, turn the key to accessory while holding the odometer reset button for 5 seconds and then it will enter pairing mode for the remote fob.

It made me feel the same joy as pressing the option on my Android phone 5 times to enter development mode back in the mid 2010s but it gets old quick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And for this next trick, we will dance the macarena while reciting the alphabet backwards and jumping on one foot!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Built in sobriety test, how nice!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like the automotive hokey-pokey I had to do with my 06 corolla for the key fob.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you press the gas pedal long enough, you see a rewind of your life

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But if you press the brake too hard, it'll break...... Sorry for being a disappointment :(

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

On a Mac it's way more intuitive than this. You just ... hold on, I have to look it up again.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My dad used to yell at me for trying to drive like this when I was a teenager!

Somehow my brain decided that if I needed to drive slower then I should just add some brakes instead of just letting off the gas...

That lasted about a week lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've always heard that this is how a lot of the "wrong pedal" accidents go. Two foot drivers get panicked in an accident and slam on both the gas and the brakes at the same time. I feel like the brake should be able to override the gas though. But I've never tried it and am not about to lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I feel like the brake should be able to override the gas though.

"Override" in the sense of pushing the brake pedal cancelling the accelerator input signal? No.

"Overpower" in the sense of the brakes being able to apply more force to stop the wheels from turning than the engine at full throttle is able to apply to keep them turning? Yes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually, due to the 2009 incidents with Toyota accelerator pedals getting stuck, all modern (~2012+) cars cut the accelerator signal if the brakes are being pressed as a safety precaution (this is called brake-throttle override).

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

why do people insist on talking relatively recent content and plagiarizing it mere days later? karma is even less meaningful here. what is the point?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

weird way to say "reposting"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True! But only the Teslas do this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do Tesla transmissions also spontaneously combust?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk if I'm being elitist or flexing the fact that I'm poor but as a stick shift driver in the state of Vermont I often did this in winter to get the heat going granted I always had the clutch down as well

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think you're flexing the fact that you have three legs tbh.

Life pro tip, you don't have to push the clutch if you're in neutral.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And if you take your shifter and go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, brake, gas, you'll add 30 months back onto your warranty!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had an old car whose engine would die if it didn't get gas, so you would always be giving it a bit of gas at all times. When you came to a stop, you had to push slightly down on the gas and all the way down on the brake, otherwise the engine would shut off.

Also would allow you to take the key out of the ignition while the car was running and it would keep running so you could unlock house doors with your keys. My parents actually sent it into the shop to "fix" that. I still don't know why they spent money to get rid of a feature. Were they afraid I would leave it on without the keys? The engine would just die without someone to push down on the gas petal.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The infotainment system in my friend's truck would periodically get wonky and he would have to pull over, turn the truck off, wait a minute, then turn it back on.

We always joked that he had to do a Ctrl-Alt-Brake Pedal.

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