Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

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Oliver Schick

Thanks, both, that's undoubtedly more likely than my little hypothesis. Knowing little about the mechanics of driving, why is it more likely in an automatic car?

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el_presidente in reply to @Oliver Schick

why is it more likely in an automatic car?

If you emergency stop in a manual car you have to depress the clutch as well, or else the engine stalls. So even if you hit the gas by mistake, engine will just rev but no acceleration. In an automatic no such option

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PhilDAS in reply to @el_presidente

If you emergency stop in a manual car you have to depress the clutch as well, or else the engine stalls

Unless your car doesn't have ABS, which granted most do. Then you need to press the brake and only use the clutch at the last moment to stop the stalling.

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