In fact, not everyone born in the womb knows how to drive a manual transmission, but in most conventional cars this includes pressing the clutch pedal and shifting the car into gear, then , as subtly as possible, reduce gears to clutch quickly but not too quickly and throttle lightly so that the car does not stall. The fact that one person’s car stalls while trying to drive a manual is the source of a great deal of shame for those who claim to know how to drive a manual, despite the fact that regular racers engine stall because it’s just the business cost of manual transmission cars. car.
Dying is like sliding on ice: the only shame is what you specify. Perhaps the worst thing about stalling is that your passenger may then feel entitled to tell you how to drive. The second worst thing is traffic congestion. The third worst thing is for the passengers, as the faulty driver will inevitably throttle too much on their next shift attempt. The fourth worst is for the car, although the car will probably be fine. The fifth worst thing is harming your ego, because no one cares about that.
Stalling is a part of life, or at least it used to be, when there were more manual transmissions on the road, not the ones of today, with all sorts of helpful aids to stop you from doing it. Stopping is not supposed to be part of the electric future because it’s old technology, what we need today, the equivalent of an 8-track music player. And it’s not really; Most electric cars are push-button machines. You push a button and the car goes.
And yet, there are lingering elements in the automotive community that still seem to wish such a thing existed even though it doesn’t have to be. Some of them even work at Toyota, a major automaker and there was a big future tech reveal yesterday. As part of that, they talked about something called “manual BEV,” which sounds like paddle shifters except there are no actual gears to talk about.
Based on The Wall Street Journalthis can also include stalling if you screw it all up.
“We wanted to be able to give customers a ‘wow’ feeling,” said Takero Kato, head of the new EV group at Toyota.
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For drivers who like the feeling of control when shifting gears and enjoy the roar of the engine as it responds to human touch, Toyota is using simulation software.
A spokesman said the system produces fake sounds and simulated shifting as well as real stalling if a driver is new to the controls, although the company is still debating whether to keep it. back that last feature when commercializing the technology or not.
These features will “amplify the fun of driving,” says Kato.
It’s probably very unlikely that this simulated stall situation will ever make it to market because driving isn’t a video game, it’s insanely silly and is there really going to be a third pedal in electric cars? without a reason? However, it’s good that Toyota took the time to think about the dozens of people who are asking for this feature, and very Toyota among them, slow adoption of EVs and all that.
Car parking really has its benefits, in that it helps you understand the limits of the engine you’re driving and helps you access and personalize it; this is what purists often talk about when they are nostalgic about shifting gears. Oddly enough, no one has the same nostalgia for hand-turning.
If I see someone stall their Toyota EV, I won’t point at them and laugh, I’ll laugh.
