dcoopsd, 24 August 2014, 23:45
samaserati wrote:
Not to mention considering the number of supers/exotics that no longer offer stick as an option (ahem: Pagani anyone?) yet still manage to find themselves on fire, in a ditch, or on the bed of a flatbed missing one or more extremely expensive parts... saying that a car without a stick requires no talent to drive can be a bit of a misnomer. I mean, with all that power at one's feet, I'd rather the driver be paying attention to the road rather than messing around with the distraction of changing gears.
i dont know, i think driving a manual makes you less likely to crash. it requires you to be focused at the overall task at hand, driving. in an automatic, you are ore likely to text or do makeup or something, but in a manual, it's incredibly hard and not worth it[/quote]
My mother made an art out of piloting her BMW Z3 3.0 one hand on the gear shift, one on her phone and her knees doing the steering. Not to discount your argument, however, driving of every kind requires you to focus on the task at hand, driving, yet regardless, people will still find ways to and will do stupid things (texting, makeup, smacking around the kids in the backseat) whether they're driving a stick or an automatic. As they way, where this is a will there is a way. In the end, I wasn't discounting that a manual takes talent (it does) but that driving very powerful automatics also take a high level of talent and that I'd rather take the person who gives up a bit of his ultimate control to the car in the form of automatic shifting so he has one less thing occupying his attention span while piloting 600, 700 or more horsepower down the highway.
beckerman, 29 August 2014, 14:54
dcoopsd wrote:
samaserati wrote:
Not to mention considering the number of supers/exotics that no longer offer stick as an option (ahem: Pagani anyone?) yet still manage to find themselves on fire, in a ditch, or on the bed of a flatbed missing one or more extremely expensive parts... saying that a car without a stick requires no talent to drive can be a bit of a misnomer. I mean, with all that power at one's feet, I'd rather the driver be paying attention to the road rather than messing around with the distraction of changing gears.
i dont know, i think driving a manual makes you less likely to crash. it requires you to be focused at the overall task at hand, driving. in an automatic, you are ore likely to text or do makeup or something, but in a manual, it's incredibly hard and not worth it
My mother made an art out of piloting her BMW Z3 3.0 one hand on the gear shift, one on her phone and her knees doing the steering. Not to discount your argument, however, driving of every kind requires you to focus on the task at hand, driving, yet regardless, people will still find ways to and will do stupid things (texting, makeup, smacking around the kids in the backseat) whether they're driving a stick or an automatic. As they way, where this is a will there is a way. In the end, I wasn't discounting that a manual takes talent (it does) but that driving very powerful automatics also take a high level of talent and that I'd rather take the person who gives up a bit of his ultimate control to the car in the form of automatic shifting so he has one less thing occupying his attention span while piloting 600, 700 or more horsepower down the highway.[/quote]
How on earth does anybody do all of that in a tiny Z3?
Last modified by beckerman, 29 August 2014, 19:55
