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Which Bluey episode is this?
*9 and 3.
Came here to say that whoever wrote this is old, like me.
The switch from 10/2 to 9/3 is because of airbags. If you’re doing it the old way, you’re more likely to have the airbag catch your hand and whack you right in the face with it.
10 and 2 was always stupid. When I was young I got an opportunity to go to a racing school and that was one of the first things they talked about. If you mime driving a car, do you put your hands at 10 and 2? No, you’ll probably do 9 and 3. Better control, less going hand over hand.
Also you should push the steering wheel with your outside hand, not pull it. Smoother input.
Aha, hand over hand, now I get to wax poetic about that.
Hand over hand steering was useful up until maybe the mid 1960s. Later, too, but after about 1967, power steering was becoming more the norm. Cars were far more likely to not have power steering. Instead, they employed lower range steering gear boxes and giant trash can lid steering wheels. In order to make a regular old 90 degree turn, you’d have to crank the wheel over way more than you do on a modern car, and the car was heavier, had steel wheels (more mass to move).
They continue to teach it today, because if your car loses power and/or shuts off (ICE cars especially, not impossible with EVs) or the power steering otherwise fails while you’re moving, you’re really going to want to know how to hand over hand steer. It’s much more difficult to steer a car with power steering that’s dead/broken than a car that just doesn’t have power steering at all. Why they still demand it for drivers’ tests on every turn, I don’t know. You should be able to demonstrate that you can do it, but hand over hand steering on essentially every car today is more clumsy, as long as everything is working properly.
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If you mime driving a car, do you put your hands at 10 and 2? No, you’ll probably do 9 and 3.
Only if that’s the standard you were taught, and the cars that you learned to drive were ones where that made more sense. I mean, just look where Toonces puts his paws.
Nothing like a technical discussion of automotive steering history without a reference to Toonces.
I had a Chevy S10 without power steering and man steering that thing at low speeds was such a bitch (such as when you’re trying to do a three point turn). You get a real workout every time you drive. So grateful power steering is in all cars nowadays.
Yeah … There was a weird in between time where there were still some small vehicles without p/s, but they were still using similar steering boxes or racks, and the same smaller steering wheel. I’m pretty sure that rack and pinion steering is more difficult without power assist, too, or because a different enough gearing would change the packaging, need too much room, increase design/production/manufacture costs too much - they just went fuck it and removed p/s without changing anything else because “good enough”.
I don’t remember whether the S10 had rack and pinion or pitman arm style.
Why didn’t you fix the power steering? I’m pretty sure they were all built with it.
This is the kind of excited spew of hyperfixated knowledge that only those touched by the tism could produce.
Yup, exactly this.
Coached race cars (and bikes) at tracks for years, and amateur raced for more than a decade.
Try just pushing (not pulling). You have a LOT more range and more comfortable control from 9/3 than 10/2
Amateur hour itt…
Lol you need an assistive device? Just use the palm of your hand, scrub.
But that’s busy smackin yo mama
You’re all wrongz left hand 1:00 that’s the correct way.
It’s mainly for better control of the vehicle. At 9 and 3, you can pull the steering wheel straight down to turn.
Source: I teach advanced performance driving.
In a modern car, yes.
Weird. I don’t think I have driven a modern car that lets you put your hands around the wheel at 9 and 3 because that’s where the centre/airbag attaches. Most also have a third point at 6, so 10 and 2 or 8 and 4 seems more appropriate. Are you only supposed to rest your hands on the outside of the wheel now?
There are generally spokes at around the 9/3 positions, but it’s not terrible to also put your hands there usually. Still, my 2015 car has the steering stalks where they’re easier to operate at 10/2, and some extra tactile features on the wheel at 10/2, so clearly the auto industry hasn’t caught up yet.
You rest your thumbs atop the 9/3 spokes, right in the corner where they meet the wheel. You grab the wheel starting from that position and you’ve got a good solid 9/3 grip across the equator of the wheel for safety and/or performance.
Your distance from the steering wheel matters a lot too. To check that you can put your arms straight out in front of you while in your normal position. Your wrists should touch the top of the wheel with your arms outstretched like that.
I heard these tips from some professional driver on a TV show. I think it might have been Tiff Needel on Fifth Gear.
*7 and 5
Less arm fatigue and safer with air bags.
With better control the airbags won’t go off.
9:30 and 2:30 is optimal and hands are to the side for an accident.
I vote for: 2:47:18.987 and 9:51:43.051
Makes you concentrate on driving! /s
i too have a digital protractor on my steering wheel
With better control the airbags won’t go off.
You can have the best control in the world and still get rear-ended, T-boned, or otherwise crashed into by someone else. Defensive driving isn’t 100% crash-proof and shit happens, my friend. There’s a lot of dumb people on the road.
Til they updated the standard.
That is the updated standard.
I thought the updated standard was adjusted for daylight savings time, making it 2100 and 0300.
Sounds annoying to drive with your hands to the side
No, it is the proper way to drive. That is why the signals are at the side, so you can operate them without moving your hands.
Proper way sounds annoying. I prefer to have my hands further up, easier to rest them. I can still reach blinker/wiper though, just extend a finger
Why do better when you can be stubborn.
I was just said it seems annoying lol
I have so many memories of my dad driving us up to the corner store, beer in hand, to put $5 in the tank and rent us Megaman 4.
No joke I took my driving test in a random minivan because my dad wrecked his car that I practiced in in a DUI
No wonder I don’t like driving lol
Learning to drive with grandpa:
-GP:You know, I miss your grandma.
-GD:I miss granny too.
-GP:Let’s then close eyes together and imagine her waiting for us at home. Just drive faster sweetheart, so we will not be late for dinner…
My eyes were never open, Grandpa. See you soon. ❤️
Does anyone have the original of the dad doge
Gonna need it so I can use it as a reaction lol
Did some digging and found these:
A zoomed in screenshot from this meme
a cutout of the doge edit
and what I assume was the original source image
Original is still edited. Pretty sure someone put human eyes on him to make it more uncanny
Goat
Thanks
Had the opposite experience tbh. Dad was banned from teaching us driving because he was too strict
Sad that the default of the current world is “can you drive?”
Mate, I can barely hold a conversation with people Ive worked with for 3+ years. How am I going to communicate via flashing lights to strangers, while driving a 1000kg hunk of metal at 50kph?
I think I can contribute to society. (I haven’t been fired yet. So I must be doing something right) but must I be cut out of social weekend events, or anything after 6pm, JUST because i cant drive?
I get your pain but personally I think social events work better without driving anyway because then you can consume alcohol
Cheers. Id drink to that. (Am slightly concerned that I’m going to town for after work drinks 3-4 times a week, but its better than the alternative)
I went to a bar 3-4 times a week and it was the best period of my life. I then got other responsibilities and can no longer go.
Just don’t get completely hammered every night
Well there’s always Uber and public transportation but both of those can be inconvenient at times. Someday I will get better at driving to get my own car though
Yeah, fucking cops man, I tell you.
>:(
Why they won’t let me drive recklessly and kill a family of 4?
Ec = 1/2m*v^2
Only if you’re white and rich or a diplomat from a rich country.
Thumbs up on the wheel, not around it. Again, due to airbags.
I’ve been forcing my thumbs up for years for nothing?!?! It looks like having your thumbs directly on the airbag is bad news but I was sure I’d have broken thumbs with my hands at 10 and 2.
Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.
Funny sexism from the 50s.
It goes deeper than that, too.
Pop culture painting dads as irresponsible parents comes from the idea that women are natural caregivers while men are just boys who work. It’s a cultural bias that still affects legislation and custody rulings, and why it’s a goddamn fight to get changing table in men’s public washrooms.
Funny drunk dad meme is just the scum on the surface of a shitty lake.
Yes, thank you.
Yes,because dad cool, mom uncool.
Funny sexism from the 50s.
Or maybe mom responsible adult, dad irresponsible man-child?
It’s the funny anti-male gender bigotry of this century.
I don’t think great-grandpa could make a meme like this, so your characterization is probably going to be the much less likely source. And honestly, it has the same man-hating, man-as-incompetent-idiot stench as a lot of feminist propaganda.
Yes because dad criminal, mom not criminal
Sweet sexism.
::: NOT EVERTHING IS FUCKING SEXISM, THE MEME WAS ABOUT DRUNK DADS :::
::: OK :::
Yes, it perpetuates the harmful stereotype that only men can have addiction issues. Gender stereotypes are harmful to all genders.
Since when is being a criminal driver cool?
Unfuckable comment
