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I was watching the idiot box and saw adds for the new model cars go by, in a sort of half aware state, and a question popped up: Do we REALLY need tachometers in dashboards anymore? With 90% of new cars using automatic trannies, of what use is a tachometer? What could we put there instead?
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Many of the cars that have automatics also have a feature for optionally manually shifting gears. Tachs are still needed. Besides, real men can still row the gears on a manual transmission, and don't need that euro-trash paddle crap to "get all racey".
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Besides, real men can still row the gears on a manual transmission
Really real men actually prefer it that way.
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Precisely. 
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(my car has a manual, which makes it almost theft proof.  )
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That was an old car joke here in Italy, where almost everyone have manuals. "What's the best antitheft device in America?" "A manual gear"
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You couldn't be more right.
Carjackers foiled by manual transmission.
And that's not the only one 
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Rly? And I thought it was the usual pot shot crack joke against the americans... 
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Nope. It really happens. I drive a manual myself and I chuckle when I see these stories knowing that most crooks couldn't drive my car if they did want to steal it.
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Nope. Manual transmissions are only low single digits percentage of total sales here around the fringes. Most mainstream cars don't even have them as an option anymore. It's mostly bigger pickup trucks and higher end sports cars (most of the entry level ones are automatic these days); although if you try hard enough you can probably find a low end econobox with a manual. Manual transmissions not being available because no one knows how to drive one because there aren't any cars with manual transmissions available to learn on has become a self fulfilling prophesy here over the last few decades.
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Right, and it's a damn shame!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: my car has a manual
So does mine. It's still in the glove box in fact.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: (my car has a manual, which makes it almost theft proof. )
The car I bought for my daughter (college) has manual tranny. I know that she is the only one that drives it.
The downside of this is that I cringe whenever I take the car in for dealer maintenance, tire change, car wash etc.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
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You learn to listen to the motor for when to shift up AND down. Don't need no stinking tach.
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Yeah, but it's nice to have a tangible indication of what the motor is doing.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Agreed
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Mike Hankey wrote: ou learn to listen to the motor for when to shift up AND down.
Exactly. In fact, I never learned how to use a tachometer. I just listened. Simple.
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I gauge speed based on engine RPM in a given gear. They do this is NASCAR as well, because they don't have speedos in their cars, and they have to obey pit road speed limits.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: They do this is NASCAR
One reason this is not a real sport. 
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Because the cars don't have speedometers?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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True. When I was doing 1/4 mile ETs (stripped down Nova hatchback), the tachy was the most important part, besides the engine
But these days, I rarely look at the thing
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Ha! I prefer automatic now - driving is a bit of a chore these days, not a pleasure (apart form the odd jaunt up the coast or inland through the desert).
After I stopped racing I got bored with having to change gears (albeit that was a long time ago). Wife still prefers manual - she reckons less chance of getting car-jacked as most yanks are baffled by gears.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: don't need that euro-trash paddle crap to "get all racey".
Preach it, brother! I hate automatic transmissions. My anemic 2002 Honda Civic is more fun to drive (5-speed stick) than my wife's 2013 Dodge Challenger (automatic).
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A tachometer is a nice indicator if something is going awry in your system. Also a lot of people, at least outside the USA and Commonwealth, use manual gears and most cars are produced with both the transmissions and then adapted for the local markets.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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