Mike Smith

Hairy One Kenobi wrote:

>
> Mind you, China aside, and his figures get a /lot/ closer.. and that's
> excluding the countries that decided right-handed people would be safer if
> they held the steering wheel in their left hand while changing gear.

Isn't the right brain responsible for spatial relationships? And
doesn't the right brain control the left side of the body? (Of course,
in normal people with properly functioning corpus callosae[sp?], either
half of the brain can learn to control either side of the body.)

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Mike Smith

Mark Allread

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:12:28 GMT, daytripper <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:47:21 -0500, Mark Allread
> <mallread@flatsurface.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 24 Nov 2003 08:32:32 -0800, Digital Puer <digital_puer@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Other 6-sp cars of which I know place the R to the right of 5. If
>>> you're in 4th gear and want to shift to 5, there is some sort of
>>> automatic system that prevents you from accidentally shifting into R.
>>>
>>> In Audi's case, if you're in neutral, I would think that it would be
>>> just as easy to accidentally shift into R as into 1st unless you're
>>> used to it.
>>
>> Nope. There is, as you say, an "automatic system" to prevent that.
>>
>> You have to *push down* before you can move into the reverse gate.
>> obvious you haven't actually driven one.
>
> I think that was established at Square One

Quite obviously NOT, since if you READ the post to which I was replying,
you will discover that he was under the impression that there was no
lockout.

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Mark

J Schiek

This new A4 1.8t six speed from Audi is the nicest shifter I have ever
driven. It is buttery smooth and effortless in it's operation. Hitting
reverse by mistake is very unlikely as the pressure required to push down on
the shifter to achieve reverse is not part of the natural motion in shifting
gears one through six. In other words, it is a dedicated pre-meditaded
execution to select reverse.


"Digital Puer" <digital_puer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:80678590.0311232121.2ec6bdae@posting.google.c om...
> I was looking at the Audi A4 Quattro. It has a 6-speed manual,
> which I've never driven before (I've only driven 5-sp). The gearstick
> has a weird configuration:
>
> R 1 3 5
> 2 4 6
>
> that's kind of odd, no? I would think that if I drove this, I might
> shift it into R instead of 1 by mistake. Does anyone have any experience
> with this?

daytripper

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:39:22 -0500, Mark Allread <mallread@flatsurface.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 02:12:28 GMT, daytripper <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:47:21 -0500, Mark Allread
>> <mallread@flatsurface.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Nov 2003 08:32:32 -0800, Digital Puer <digital_puer@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Other 6-sp cars of which I know place the R to the right of 5. If
>>>> you're in 4th gear and want to shift to 5, there is some sort of
>>>> automatic system that prevents you from accidentally shifting into R.
>>>>
>>>> In Audi's case, if you're in neutral, I would think that it would be
>>>> just as easy to accidentally shift into R as into 1st unless you're
>>>> used to it.
>>>
>>> Nope. There is, as you say, an "automatic system" to prevent that.
>>>
>>> You have to *push down* before you can move into the reverse gate.
>>> obvious you haven't actually driven one.
>>
>> I think that was established at Square One
>
>Quite obviously NOT, since if you READ the post to which I was replying,
>you will discover that he was under the impression that there was no
>lockout.

I READ the post, thanks for asking.

And only an utter pinhead would have come to the erroneous conclusion that the
OP had ever driven an Audi 6-speed...

hth

/daytripper
'00 s4 6spd

Mike Smith

Peter Bell wrote:

> In message <74swb.221630$9E1.1213208@attbi_s52>
> "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>"Peter Bell" <peter@invalid.org.uk> wrote...
>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>But it is harder to overcome the spring pressure when pushing the gear
>>>lever away from you (as in next to first gear) than when pulling it
>>>towards you (as in next to fifth or sixth gear). If you happen to be
>>>in one of those countries where the gear lever is on your right hand
>>>side, then I can only feel sorry for you!
>>
>>"One of those countries"? I do appreciate a good joke.
>
>
> What's the joke? I believe that more than 50% of the world's
> population live in countries where the rule is to drive on the left
> hand side of the road.

But I don't think it's *much* more than 50%; i.e. right-hand-drive is
not exactly rare.

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Mike Smith

Mike Smith

Victor Bazarov wrote:
>
> Of course, _living_ in a country with driving on a certain side of
> the road and being able (or having anything) to _drive_ in it is
> a completely different story. How many do you think actually
> _drive_passenger_cars_ in those countries? So, THAT's pretty much
> an open question, not how many countries there are with a particular
> rule or how many people live in them.

Perhaps this information could be gleaned from manufacturing/sales
figures? I.e. how many RHD vs. LHD cars in the world?

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Mike Smith