Ford is recalling more than 550,000 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the transmissions can unexpectedly downshift to first gear no matter how fast the trucks are going.
  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
    68·
    6 months ago

    Porsche just recalled every Taycan as well for a brake hose that can leak.

    Tesla, Ford and Porshe all back to back.

    Someone, university or something looked into this once, and found that something like 70% of the time recalls happen in groups like this as OEMs wait for others to announce their recalls first as they take the bigger stock /media hit. Then anyone else who had one but hadn’t announced it yet jumps in and doesn’t suffer as much.

  • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    333·
    6 months ago

    Gotta love how corporations can just put dangerous deathmobiles on the street and just pull a “oopsie daisy” when people start complaining

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      112·
      6 months ago

      I hate the car industry so much. Oh no you can’t put on a muffler on your car, it’s too loud.

      Except obviously when you can afford a Lamborghini, because rich people can be as loud as they want.

      Uh no that that rear spoiler looks dangerous, that’s not allowed.

      But you can sell cars that just hop into 1st gear, that’s a honest mistake

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        6 months ago

        Can’t have pop up headlights or hood ornaments because they’re dangerous to pedestrians.

        But you can have a hood that’s six feet tall because that’s totally safe for pedestrians.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Eh, not really. The tricky part (which isn’t even that tricky) of learning to drive stick is modulating the clutch, not somehow accidentally downshifting

      • Thteven@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        I accidentally shifted from 4th to 1st instead of 3rd when I was first learning. Shit happens.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Maybe, if you’re also driving an antique that doesn’t have high-RPM lockouts to prevent overspeeding the engine. But even my old cars going back to the '90s have those.

          • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
            3·
            6 months ago

            06 Subaru has no problem pulling a money shift, the reason you’ll never accidentally hit first isn’t because of lockouts but first not having a synchro. Now grabbing second from fifth on the highway, yea, that can happen

          • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            6 months ago

            I’m more worried about beating the transmission to death, but I didn’t know about high rpm lockouts so thanks for sharing that.

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              Nah, the only thing that might be worth worrying about learning to drive stick is the clutch, and that’s a wear item designed to be replaced anyway. (Not necessarily often or cheaply, but still, a wear item.)

              Even then, unless somebody’s truly hopeless, they’ll figure it out well before putting on any noticeable excessive wear. (Source: I’ve taught at least five people to drive stick using my own cars, including myself, and haven’t had to replace a clutch due to wear yet.)

              • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                2·
                6 months ago

                To be fair nearly all my concerns about manuals are from stories others have told me. We have had two manual cars for maybe a decade now and haven’t had a single bit of trouble with the transmissions or clutches.

                I even taught myself to drive stick driving one of them home from the dealership. Plus I didnt become proficient at it for a bit of time after that.

                I really prefer manuals at this point. Feels simpler.

        • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          One of the first lessons from my instructor was to push the gear stick from the right with your palm for 1/2, top for 3/4, and left for anything else.

          That way, there is less chance of shifting from one section to another. Useful when you car sometimes needs a downshift on the motorway, and 4th is adjacent to R.

          • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            6 months ago

            For me it was only a problem when I had to drive two cars:

            A pickup with the shifter on the steering column (makes me sick thinking of it, horrible design)

            A jeep with an absurd shifting handle which made the gears miles apart.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
      92·
      6 months ago

      Found on road dead

      Fix or repair daily

      Failure of Research/Development

      Fucker only runs downhill

  • erp@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    Yo dawg, we heard you like engine braking so we gave you engine breaking in your engine braking!

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    And yet I can’t buy a kei truck because that is supposedly unsafe.

    Can buy a motorcycle, can buy a pedestrian killer, can buy a SUV that seems to beg to want to rollover, but can’t buy a small truck.