• @credo@lemmy.world
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    113 months ago

    Okay student, now turn the accelerator and feather the accelerator as you accelerate into the curve, then press the accelerator to accelerate your acceleration out the curve.

  • @mmddmm@lemm.ee
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    83 months ago

    No, one of them is the “don’t accelerate” pedal you use to switch gears.

    • Natanael
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      53 months ago

      You’re applying acceleration to the gear switcher

      • @stelelor@lemmy.ca
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        13 months ago

        It could be the handbrake (well, footbrake). If that’s the case, it’s unusually close to the other pedals.

        • @mmddmm@lemm.ee
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          23 months ago

          And way too large, and way too low.

          Handbrake pedals are usually small pedals, away from the others and raised so it’s uncomfortable to reach them.

      • GormadtOP
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        13 months ago

        Exactly my thinking, looks like a dead pedal not a clutch.

        I’ve never seen a clutch bigger than the brake pedal.

  • @Brosplosion@lemm.ee
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    243 months ago

    Is it an accelerator? Or is it a jerk pedal? Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

    I definitely have friends

    • @DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction. The steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal all accelerate the vehicle.

      • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        213 months ago

        Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction

        They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk

        • billwashere
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          93 months ago

          And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. It’s called snap or jounce.

          • @0ops@lemm.ee
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            33 months ago

            I remember when my calculus professor offhand mentioned these and jerk. He had a really dry sense of humor, so I didn’t realize that he wasn’t joking with us (the class) until like two semesters later.

              • @0ops@lemm.ee
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                23 months ago

                If I remember right, it wasn’t on any test. Those tests were all problem solving, and none of the problems had derivatives deeper than acceleration. It was awhile ago though, I could be misremembering

                • @ulterno@programming.dev
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                  03 months ago

                  Well, it might just have been an out of syllabus thing considering I was not taught that in class and only learnt it while having fun somewhere.

          • @nBodyProblem@lemmy.world
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            63 months ago

            And fifth/sixth derivatives are crackle and pop because some physicists thought it would be funny to have it be “snap crackle and pop”

    • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      173 months ago

      Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

      Technically it controls the amount of air and/or fuel delivered to the engine (in a gas engine, the pedal directly controls airflow; in a diesel engine it directly controls fuel flow)

    • @arcane@lemmy.world
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      43 months ago

      No, if there is constant pressure on the accelerator, there is a constant acceleration on the car.

      The jerk comes with the rate of change of pressure on the pedal (e.g. if you stomp on it)

      That would make the driver the jerk 🤔

    • @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      53 months ago

      Increasing speed -> acceleration Decreasing speed -> negative acceleration Changing direction -> Vector acceleration(change in velocity)

          • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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            03 months ago

            As someone who prefers not to drive where possible, and in a country where manual for regular cars is not common, why do people think manual is so great?

            Gives you some more control on your gears, sure. But heck, the only time I ever, ever need it is going up or down very steep hills - for which there are low gear settings on most cars which you can switch on for those moments.

            For most people, it’s just a massive waste of time to learn, when an engineered solution already exists and presumably doesn’t add significant enough cost to be worth not having it (I assume, because of the lack of demand, here).

            Is it just, for the “love of driving”? Okay fair enough, but that’s your hobby then, not sure why we need to like it also

            In any case, do enlighten me because I don’t get it haha

          • Final Remix
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            23 months ago

            BMW was even pushing customers to stop ordering manuals a few years back, so they could just focus on automatics.

            • @rabber@lemmy.ca
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              Yeah I literally spent 3 years looking for an n55 335i msport manual. And that was almost 10 years ago. Never selling this car lol

    • @BossDj@lemm.ee
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      113 months ago

      I’m on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it’s an automatic and that’s a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)

    • @Trollception@sh.itjust.works
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      That looks like a dead pedal (foot rest), not a clutch pedal. Normally only the gas pedal has a full pedal face on it. A clutch pedal normally looks like a brake pedal.

      Edit: Eh someone already said this but I agree with them.

  • Prehensile_cloaca
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    83 months ago

    Can you fucking learn homonyms if you’re going to make an entire ass meme about something?

    • TheRealKuni
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      73 months ago

      I learned something today.

      I was taught in my younger days that “homonyms” were words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently, and “homophones” were words that were pronounced the same but spelled differently. “Break” and “brake” would then be homophones.

      But it turns out “homonym” is the broader category including “homophones,” “homographs,” and words where both are true (same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings). So homophones are homonyms.

      TheMoreYouKnow.gif

      P.S. Though Wikipedia says a more technical definition would limit “homonym” to, specifically, the third category, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but with different meanings. They give examples of “stalk” (part of a plant) and “stalk” (follow/harass a person), or “skate” (glide on ice) and “skate” (a type of fish).

      P.P.S. This reminds me of the autoantonym (a word that is its own opposite) “cleave,” which can mean “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly” or “to split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.“ I don’t know if “cleave” is technically a homonym, or if these are simply two definitions for the same word, and I don’t know who would decide that. But it’s still a fun word.

  • Rose
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    23 months ago

    There’s this Finnish joke that doesn’t translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. “Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit.”

    Tap for spoiler

    (A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates little bits. Do you get it now?)

  • @LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    23 months ago

    Physicians: “It’s all vector addition and differatials?”
    Mathematicians: “Always has been.”

  • @BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    73 months ago

    Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was “break wind”. 😆💨