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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kaeurenne@lemmy.kadaikupi.site 28 points 1 year ago
[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago

Lateral accelerator, parallel forward accelerator, and parallel reverse accelerator

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

Finally, someone called manual transmission "normal"!

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

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

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

Which is an example of acceleration.

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

Meanwhile me noob in physics:-

physics noob meme

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 year 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 year 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