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re: Study: Only 18% of Americans know how to drive stick shift
Posted on 10/13/16 at 8:38 am to Scooba
Posted on 10/13/16 at 8:38 am to Scooba
They're far from novelties, wait your manual has decent control? How does that work? My wife's has hill/decline start assist, for 3 seconds, and it's pretty trick.
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Posted on 10/13/16 at 8:43 am to Gaston
My damn car has hill start assist. It won't let go of the brake if it detects you're on a hill till you hit he gas. I grew up driving tractors and diesel pickups that don't need the skinny pedal to get rolling and don't have automatic brakes. Killed the fricking thing about 5 times trying to get out of the dealership parking lot trying to take off against the damn brakes. I didn't know there was such a thing as hill start assist
Posted on 10/13/16 at 8:45 am to Gaston
Novelty in that it's rare. 
Decent control is similar to Hill start assist. It may be a rubicon thing. My manual in 4lo you can let off everything, no gas, no clutch, you hold on to the wheel and it will control your RPM to keep crawling up or down hills. Say you are crawling straight in 4lo and get to a levee, the computer will notice the need for RPM, increase it, and climb at a steady pace. It will lower the RPM and engine brake for you on the way down.
You can stand on the brake pedal and pull the EBrake and the damn thing won't stall. Computer will take over.
That's only in 4low or with the assist feature turned on.
ETA: I leave it off because it's weird when I let off the brake on an incline and the vehicle stays in the same spot.
Decent control is similar to Hill start assist. It may be a rubicon thing. My manual in 4lo you can let off everything, no gas, no clutch, you hold on to the wheel and it will control your RPM to keep crawling up or down hills. Say you are crawling straight in 4lo and get to a levee, the computer will notice the need for RPM, increase it, and climb at a steady pace. It will lower the RPM and engine brake for you on the way down.
You can stand on the brake pedal and pull the EBrake and the damn thing won't stall. Computer will take over.
That's only in 4low or with the assist feature turned on.
ETA: I leave it off because it's weird when I let off the brake on an incline and the vehicle stays in the same spot.
This post was edited on 10/13/16 at 8:46 am
Posted on 10/13/16 at 8:54 am to Gaston
I miss the hell out of owning a manual. My first car was a Maxima with a 5 speed, I later had a 05 Nissan Frontier with a 6 speed, it also had no cruise control which made interstate driving a total bitch. Both of those were certainly fun to drive though. When I bought my current truck('12 F250) I almost went look at the Dodge just so I could get a manual. My fiance will be in the market for a 4Runner in about a year and I was bummed to learn they're no longer offered in a manual.
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