• KnitWit@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      It isn’t even an iq test, it’s a cognitive test. For dementia and stroke patients. Questions are things like ‘place the numbers where they go on an analog clock.’

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        I wonder if they’re going to change that one. More and more people are going to go their whole lives without ever seeing an analog clock.

        People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock. Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

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          People on here get all upset about kids these days who can’t read an analog clock

          To be fair, it was mostly that one idiot who thought it should disqualify students from sitting exams…

          Funnily enough, a lot of those people think it’s completely reasonable that they don’t know how to drive a manual.

          And I agree. Just like analog clocks and indeed internal combustion engine cars in general, manual transmissions are technology that used to be the norm but is now old fashioned, unnecessary except for rare use cases, and fast approaching obsolete.

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            2 hours ago

            By modern automotive standards, manual transmissions are already obsolete. That said… They’re so damn fun to drive, and you feel way more in control because in some sense you are. Just not in the power and fuel savings that the machine picks

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              EVs are even better - you’re fully in control of the power, without an engine and transmission imposing a bunch of limits and power bands based on engine RPM and vehicle speed.

              You actually get the experience that automatic transmissions promise but fail to deliver. If you want power, press the pedal. If you want more power, press the pedal more. That’s it. No power fade, surges, hiccups as it shifts, etc.

              I prefer a manual to an automatic, but they’re both obsolete. Electric motors just do as they’re told.