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And where are you from? And how old? Not "do you" but just if you know how.

I'm in the US, mid 30s and can (and do) drive a manual transmission.

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[โ€“] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can, not well, but I can. damn hill starts.

[โ€“] guyrocket@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not sure how common it is now but some cars had a "hill holder" feature that would hold the brake for you when starting on a hill. Makes that whole process much, much easier.

[โ€“] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Just pull the parking brake and accelerate until you feel the car slightly raising and then drop the parking brake.

Eventually you get a feeling for it and drop the parking brake before it's "fighting" the accelerator.

This might sound trivial to some, but I know several people that never use the parking brake in these situations and instead do a manic race with their feet and the car drops a couple meters back and they over accelerate to compensate.

[โ€“] Neato@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is how I do it. I also do this when reversing out of parking spaces. Because my car's reverse requires pushing down on the stick and is close to 1st, I've saved myself from driving into polls a few times.

[โ€“] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The parking brake method is how I learned. But I grew up here, where you are always on a hill and always in stop and go traffic. So I eventually just give up on stick shift.

[โ€“] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I learned the parking brake method.

A couple meters, you say? Sounds like a great way to trash your transmission.

[โ€“] Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

A couple meters, you say? Sounds like a great way to trash your transmission.

It drives (pun intended) me nuts, but they don't listen to reason. And the worst of all, is that they got their license in a hilly town and say they weren't taught that. While I learned in a flatter place and was taught this.

[โ€“] spam@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is the way. Drove a tiny 4cyl manual in SF for way to long

Older diesels had a handy feature for it too, in the way of a hand throttle.

[โ€“] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

When getting your driving license, you are supposed to know 3 so called 'special manoeuvres'. Hill start, backwards turn and parallel parking. During your test you have to perform 2 of these (chosen by the examiner). Everyone always hopes that one of these two will be the hill start because it's by far the easiest one.