Manual Automatic Transmission Rage
Having experience with both manual and automatic transmission, I’d argue manual is more difficult but gives you more control, especially for slowing down safely using low gears, and makes you focus on driving rather than the beverage placed in a drink holder or your friends’ messages in the screen of your phone as you careen past a red light into a busy intersection or pedestrians waiting for a bus.
7 years in heavy traffic in São Paulo to and from school with my dad cursing, and driving an hour and a half each way to a job in Rome for a year made me familiar with the rage on the road.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas helped transfer mine to video games then, and I have since kept the promise I made to myself that I’d never drive in traffic regularly to go to work again.
Living in a rural area now, I reluctantly co-own a car, but still think the things are best in video games like Grand Theft Auto, and that spending hours at a time in them, separated from others inside their own machines feet away from you in heavy traffic, driving in a city, is a form of insanity.
Just rambling on a Wednesday here, putting this post up as a place to write down more automobile stories from real life and virtual worlds, and to expand on a comment made over at Rock Paper Shotgun.
Further information on the effects of cars or the lack of them:
- Not Just Bikes YouTube channel.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
PS. I’ve put Wreckfest 1 and 2 in my list of wishes.
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