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pjmlp | on: Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
> Few cars are manual steering, manual brakes, manual transmission.

Tell me you are not in European or African continent without telling me.

tonyedgecombe | parent | next
In Europe you would be hard pressed to find a car without power steering or assisted brakes.
pjmlp | root | parent
Still plenty to acquire around in second hand.
tonyedgecombe | root | parent
Not really.
pjmlp | root | parent
Actually yes. Come to southern or eastern Europe, on plenty of those side road dealerships with signs on their windscreen, or parked in random places with a telephone number on them.
danielbln | parent | next
I'm in Central Europe and there aren't many manual transmissions around anymore where I am. But if you paint with a brush of two entire continents, you might paint a little too broadly.
trinix912 | root | parent | next
I’m in Central Europe too and most cars are manuals. Must be just your neck of the woods. But I agree it’s a pointless debacle.
mcv | root | parent
I think it's mostly the hybrids and EVs that are killing manual transmission. They were very common 20 years ago.
pjmlp | root | parent
Unless you are driving an EV, or lucky to own Audi, Volvo, BMW or Mercedes top class of vehicle, most people are on manual.
iso1631 | root | parent
In the UK, it's about 30% automatic on the road, but automatics have outsold manuals for years and about 80% of new cars sold today are automatic.
pjmlp | root | parent
Doesn't compute with 30% on the road and 80% sales, also I doubt middle to low class cars are being sold with automatics.

Unless those 80% new cars are EVs.

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iso1631 | parent
My 21 year old car in the uk has power steering, and it was low end when new