• BilboBargains@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This works well and it’s not a hill I’ll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it’s done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I’ve never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.

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      Not sure about the UK, but I know Germany likes manuals because they last longer when you have a lot of hills and mountains.

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      Well, as a kid I thought by the time I’ll do my driver’s license there will be no more manual transmissions around.

      Turns out, automatic is just still way more expensive to buy AND, as I recently learned, crazy expensive in maintenance.