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PaigeAshley 159 points ago +161 / -2

That's horrible!

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mugatucrazypills 130 points ago +131 / -1

ECU takeover is the newest glowie tactic. They get off on this sick shit. Accelerate your car to 130mph and put it into a head on.collision

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yellow_iron 91 points ago +92 / -1

Definitely drive stick, then.

Redline it if you want, alphabet faggot. It's not going any faster than I want it to go 😂

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yellow_iron 24 points ago +26 / -2

Honda and Toyota still make new quality vehicles with manual transmissions.

edit: also, the manufacturers are correct. Modern CVTs are more efficient than you rowing your own gears. To their credit, the largest expense for most vehicles is fuel costs. But they are not as reliable as manual transmissions, and they take control out of your hands. Not worth it to me for an extra few MPGs.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yet a manual transmission is the cheapest to maintain for a long time. They want ua all serfs, paupers, or dead.

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Weekendwarrior13 1 point ago +1 / -0

You can put just about any car in neutral. Stick or not

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Thrasymachus 13 points ago +13 / -0

Preach. It's safer too, since you simply can't "zone out" driving stick the way you can with automatics (or, lord help you, the sort-of-self-driving madness).

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remember1776 10 points ago +10 / -0

That gives my left leg something to do especially on long rides, also shifting is so satisfying and you have a closer connection to your car

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Caroigne 6 points ago +6 / -0

I hate how the assholes are destroying everything cool about the future.

Self-driving would be great for older people whose vision and reflexes are going or gone. But NO, of course it has to be ruined, and they will attempt to use it as a tool to take more autonomy away.

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Libertynfreedom4ever 1 point ago +1 / -0

I really hope they’re around in a few years when my son will need to get a car

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CadillacTwo 12 points ago +13 / -1

3 pedals is always the way to be!

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 2 points ago +2 / -0

What if you put an automatic in neutral when they try this? Blow up your motor at worst.

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yellow_iron 5 points ago +5 / -0

Better than dying.

Modern cars operate on ECUs, input from the driver is a "request". You aren't physically pulling levers, your input is telling the car what you want to do. The logic in the software determines the best way to perform what you are asking under the conditions the vehicle sensors are detecting.

I'm saying, I'm not entirely sure putting an automatic in neutral would work under a hack scenario.

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Kaiheitai 2 points ago +2 / -0

Many new cars have no direct link to transmission from shift control.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Hard to find a stick.

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yellow_iron 2 points ago +2 / -0

Hard to find for who?

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Chick-fill-eh 36 points ago +37 / -1

It seems wise to add a remote switch to the power wire on your fuel pump or some such.

It'll be the new VPN.

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zooty 12 points ago +12 / -0

Immobilizer switches were popular at one time. Put something inline to the coil packs.

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ddragon 7 points ago +7 / -0

Or shift to neutral. Also, if this ever happens and for sun’s reason you can’t shift to neutral, slam the brakes as hard and long as possible. Don’t brake until you’re ready to full send, because you don’t want any fade, but your brakes should be able to fully stop your car with a wide open throttle if applied forcefully

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Chick-fill-eh 10 points ago +10 / -0

The neutral thing only applies to manuals or older automatics. Shifters on modern automatics are just a fancy switch that tells the (CIA controlled) ecu what to do.

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Ricky_CIA 8 points ago +8 / -0

Modern automatics are "shift by wire", meaning there's no mechanical linkage from the gear selector to the transmission.

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Chick-fill-eh 5 points ago +6 / -1

Why would you need any of that to cut a wire and add a mechanical switch?

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Stable-Genius 22 points ago +22 / -0

Yet another reason to drive classic cars. Cars without computers are more fun anyways. Also better for the environment if you dont buy a new Mercedes every other year.

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zooty 7 points ago +7 / -0

You have to go back a fair way for no computer now though. I don't think I've driven a computerless car since 99 and that was an older vehicle on its last legs already.

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Ricky_CIA 3 points ago +3 / -0

Which is why I love my '85 Chevy pickup.

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abusiverelationships 9 points ago +10 / -1

ecu? please explain

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abusiverelationships 0 points ago +1 / -1

Thanks!

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MAGA_Flocka_Flame 16 points ago +16 / -0

Engine control unit

The computer that is in your car if it is from the 90’s or newer

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Hillbilly 6 points ago +6 / -0

But to be clear, remote connection to ECU is not necessarily a given even on brand new cars. Every Manufacturer is different.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +2 / -1

One car here drove into the back of a semi.

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mugatucrazypills 4 points ago +4 / -0

Engine control unit: for example they appear to have done it for. putin's fav. Driver when they were "applying pressure" a few years ago. Then they killed or let his fav associate from ussr days get killed In turkey. they wonder why hes grumpy and uncooperative. We're lucky he didn't just nuke us TBH.

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CuomoisaMassMurderer 3 points ago +3 / -0

CIA was pressuring Putin? Under what administration?

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TommyLasordasBallBag 3 points ago +3 / -0

Electronic control unit. Most new vehicles controlled by computer. Add a data connecting device to it and nefarious people can take over the brain of your car.

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MiyamotoHolliday 7 points ago +7 / -0

If you believe Killer Elite, it's been done since the cold war.

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Doomguy1994 1 point ago +1 / -0

Are you taking about the book on the Intelligence Support Activity?

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MiyamotoHolliday 2 points ago +2 / -0

The one they made a movie about, yes. Makes me wanna only drive 60s era muscle cars

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PeaceThroughStrength 11 points ago +11 / -0

It's speculated as another Seth Rich event.