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danielbln | on: Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
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 | 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 | 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.

iso1631 | root | parent
Of course it does, half the cars on the road are over 10 years old, when manual outnumbered automatic