17
Porsche Is Adding Fake Gear Shifts to Its EVs, 2027 Taycan Will Be First: Exclusive
(www.thedrive.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
17 points (100.0% liked)
Fuck Cars
15282 readers
323 users here now
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
Rules
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
Posting Guidelines
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
- [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
- [article] for news articles
- [blog] for any blog-style content
- [video] for video resources
- [academic] for academic studies and sources
- [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
- [meme] for memes
- [image] for any non-meme images
- [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories
Recommended communities:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I absolutely hate that my CVT vehicle has a 1-2-D-N-R shifter with "Overdrive Button" because Nissan thought faux gearing would sell better. It randomly decides I must secretly rather hit 4000rpm+ than continue accelerating at a vaguely reasonable pace, and I say randomly because there is no discernable consistency re: pedal position, etc. The worst regular automatic I ever used was more consistent.
To be clear, I find anything over 3000rpm unnecessary and annoying. At least in this vehicle, most of the time I can still accelerate faster than most other drivers without hitting that. Its like its trying to shame me for getting to the speed-limit quickly so I can settle-in to cruising without a truck up my ass.... for a few precious seconds anyways.