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In my experience living in a small town, the good ol boys are allowed to drive like maniacs, but the cops are up your ass the minute you’re over the limit.
they can sniff-out those out-of-state plates from miles away. they know you aren’t likely to come back to hickville to fight that traffic ticket.
I’d heard this happened but I didn’t believe it until I moved from Maine to Massachusetts and went back to visit for the first time. Got pulled over and ticketed for doing 59 in a 55, on a road I (and everyone else) used to drive 65 on every day. Only difference was the MA plates.
Damn straight. Hillbilly douche bro blaring country music while driving his pickup at 55mph through downtown?
It’s okay, I know his dad and they’re good people.
Out of towners/poor people/“lesser stock”/or people they plain just don’t like?
you didn’t use your blinker long enough to signal. Sorry, nothing I can do about it, $200 fine.
not true, you dont see (many) manuals in the US
Really? They’re all over the place where I live. Not saying they’re a majority, but maybe 10%, more out in the country
Definitely a lot more out in the country than in the cities or even suburbs. 10% sounds about right.
I got a 6 speed and my car isn’t even sold outside of North America. They’re coming back among enthusiasts
The numbers are bizarre, I know some old sports cars had inversed gear sticks but r -> 2 looks weird, any car amateurs around to help?
Edit: Thanks! It’s not weird! Maybe slightly unusual but that’s all!
uhh looks normal to me
i drive a 2009 alfa romeo 159
you have to lift a ring on the bottom of the shifter to get into reverse and then 1st on top left, 2nd below, 3rd top middle all the way to 6th bottom right
Aah yeah it was the R place that threw me off, thanks!
Remember my friend lending me his ford(? a loong time ago) with that ring and I spent 15 sweating minutes to figure out how to go backwards :-D
I think it’s common for 4sp transmissions. 5sp less so since it makes more sense to put 5 and R on the same side of the H (unless it’s a dogleg 5sp).
It is pretty common to have R on the left, to avoid accidental shifts while car is in motion
Hard to do as usually the R isn’t synced, so you get some scratching but that’s all. Not good ofc, but you won’t blow your engine/gearbox.
What I am saying is that it is very common. All manual cars I have had with the exception of one have the R on the left
There’s a town near me that pretty much exists as a speed trap. The road goes from 65 to 35 with no warning, and then back up to 50 in intervals.
I’ve got a road that goes from 45 to 25 to 35 to 25-school-zone almost quickly enough to see the next sign from the previous sign.
Germans driving in 4th gear in villages uphill:
I don’t get this: riding in the higher gears would keep your RPMs low and make it more difficult to accelerate quickly (and thus break traffic laws).
Am I missing something?
Yes you’re missing that usually a higher gear means higher speed, for regular driving anyway
Right… so now we’re associating maintaining your speed using the normal higher gears with going to jail? That makes sense
The implied joke is obvious and has been around for a while. Why are you intentionally complicating it to act like it doesn’t make sense? It doesn’t make you seem smarter than the joke teller or anything.
The joke is many American rural area counties have a metric shit ton of speed traps to booster local funds
Yeah I actually drive stick and I’m not seeing the connection
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Murican here: My only motor vehicle is manual, it’s less common here but there are plenty of people in the US who can drive stick just fine.
Most of my friends drive stick. I’m pretty much the outlier with Auto
Among my friends it’s probably close to half, with auto being more dominant but for most people in the states it would be mostly automatic I’d bet.
You first, I’ve been driving them for over twenty years. My daughter probably won’t, but that’s more because she’d rather not drive at all
Sure we can. My first car was manual.
/s?
yep :) thought it was obvious
