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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 98 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

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

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 28 points 2 months ago
[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 4 points 2 months ago

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

Myvi the only car that can fly in Malaysia

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Lateral accelerator, parallel forward accelerator, and parallel reverse accelerator

[–] dihutenosa@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Finally, someone called manual transmission "normal"!

[–] knuckleproof@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is an example of acceleration.

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 19 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile me noob in physics:-

physics noob meme

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months 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