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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's correct for normal people. Normal people are pretty bad at spelling.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

False. It's an Alpha Romeo, those are all just oil dispensers

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

On higher trim levels, one of those pedals is actually dedicated to shorting electrical harnesses

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 27 points 1 month ago
[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah that post looks like a car flying, to me. Or... I am mistaken.

Myvi the only car that can fly in Malaysia

[–] dihutenosa@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Finally, someone called manual transmission "normal"!

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Lateral accelerator, parallel forward accelerator, and parallel reverse accelerator

[–] knuckleproof@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any other car and it would have been an “meh” meme, the Alfa badge and the misspelling make it so much better, well played!

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the left pedal is the clutch, not the brake. And the steering wheel doesn't accellerate.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Acceleration is a vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes its velocity. An object is accelerating if it is changing its velocity.

A change in direction is a change in velocity

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It changes the direction of the velocity vector, but not the magnitude.

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is an example of acceleration.

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 19 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile me noob in physics:-

physics noob meme

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.

And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That's part of Newton's (apocryphal?) apple story


he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn't also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it's just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Agree 100% on the dead petal. Every manual transmission ive owned has the clutch and a footrest, so it actually appears to be 4 pedals if you dont know what youre looking at