mechanics
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Toyota’s Future ‘Manual’ EVs Could Stall If You Mess Up
As it happens, not everyone emerges from the womb knowing how to drive a manual transmission, which, in most regular cars, involves pressing a clutch pedal and shifting the car into gear and then, as delicately as one can manage, easing up on the clutch quick but not too quick and giving the car a…
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Here’s Car Talk’s 100 Percent Effective Way to Teach Someone to Drive a Manual
Turns out, there’s a 100 per cent effective way to teach people to drive a manual. I first heard it several years ago from the sainted Tappet Brothers, and I’ve taught maybe 25 or 30 people to drive a manual with it since — with a zero per cent failure rate.
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Traffic Noise Could Hurt More Than Your Ears
Urbanisation has its ups and downs, which mostly have to do with how the environment affects our physical wellbeing. Big cities have the best food, but they have pollution in many forms, and it turns out noise pollution is dangerous beyond causing harm to our hearing.
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How These Microscopic Diamonds Are Going To Shape The Future
No doubt you’re already familiar with the many ways graphene promises to save us all, but there’s another (so-called) miracle material out there vying for your attention — and it’s sparkly, to boot. Say hello to the latest and greatest substance to kick science’s arse straight into the future: the nanodiamond.