• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Exactly. For over ten years I regularly switched between manual and automatic and this meme happened zero times.

    I quite often did stall the engine of the manual at red lights though.

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      5 months ago

      I used to drive cars for a living for over a decade and even I can admit that must have happened to me once or twice

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      5 months ago

      So you literally had the opposite problem but can’t imagine someone having this one.

      • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        Yes, because while muscle memory may make your foot move (or not as in my case), I’ve never seen a car where the break pedal is broad enough to be anywhere close to where the clutch would be.