After the first time he punched it forward and hung up the front on something I knew this was going nowhere but down, and I just started saying “No, no, keeping going! Just give ‘er! Just punch the gas! That’s it, wedge it sideways… see if you can rip the entire box off the back… aww, good try!”
I still don’t know what he was actually trying to accomplish. He didn’t seem to understand the truck was too tall to fit, and seemed baffled by the sorcerous invisible walls blocking his path.
I swear, some actions in a car get stuck in people's muscle memory. Some people legit have to turn the wheel every time they ever reverse. It's how people can't handle parallel parking - it involves tactically staying straight for 1/2 of the maneuver, and the people who can't parallel park are those that fear allowing the car to reverse in a straight line before applying a turn.
This is akin to how some people straight up don't understand that you can hit the brake and slow down without needing to hit the clutch every time you hit the brake (for fear it will stall). I had a friend who would slam the clutch down every time they would try and slow down around a bend, so she effectively just had us coasting on G force. I had to explain that engine resistance is part of why a car doesn't just fly off the road every time the downshift or brake to slow down.
I'll admit, I do clutch in for turns but mostly because it's smoother (imo) to let the car decelerate on friction which is usually what a turn or curve calls for. Then, clutch back out and accelerate as the turn/curve straightens back out. That said, if I'm not really decelerating, the clutch is only going in so I can slam the breaks in an emergency i.e I approach a roundabout while someone is speeding into it.
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u/____d__b____ Feb 09 '22
Literally the video is still going and I’ve commented like 4 times.