<story><title>The end of the manual transmission is near?</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a40900795/the-end-of-the-manual-transmission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>A great number of the cool designs from the 50&amp;#x27;s and 60&amp;#x27;s are illegal because the front of the car eats people. Swallows them, chews them up, and spits them out.&lt;p&gt;The sloped design of new cars isn&amp;#x27;t just about aerodynamics. In a low-speed impact a pedestrian is lifted onto the hood. Forward leaning grills, such as on the Dodge Charger, some of the beefier Mustangs, and any number of other muscle cars or sedans, instead clip pedestrians in the knee or hip, tip them over and drop them onto the ground, where the car then runs over them.&lt;p&gt;I think there was also an issue with those profiles and Jersey barriers, in that they were more likely to pole vault over them off the side of a bridge or onto - not into - oncoming traffic.&lt;p&gt;You are not ever going to get those designs back.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I reiterate my compromise proposal:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32397975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32397975&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking.&lt;p&gt;After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are as visually appealing and reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s.  Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965, and begin anew.  When in doubt, don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pxtl</author><text>Okay but then why is the rolling brick wall of a modern pickup allowed?</text></comment>
<story><title>The end of the manual transmission is near?</title><url>https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a40900795/the-end-of-the-manual-transmission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hinkley</author><text>A great number of the cool designs from the 50&amp;#x27;s and 60&amp;#x27;s are illegal because the front of the car eats people. Swallows them, chews them up, and spits them out.&lt;p&gt;The sloped design of new cars isn&amp;#x27;t just about aerodynamics. In a low-speed impact a pedestrian is lifted onto the hood. Forward leaning grills, such as on the Dodge Charger, some of the beefier Mustangs, and any number of other muscle cars or sedans, instead clip pedestrians in the knee or hip, tip them over and drop them onto the ground, where the car then runs over them.&lt;p&gt;I think there was also an issue with those profiles and Jersey barriers, in that they were more likely to pole vault over them off the side of a bridge or onto - not into - oncoming traffic.&lt;p&gt;You are not ever going to get those designs back.</text></item><item><author>recursivedoubts</author><text>I reiterate my compromise proposal:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32397975&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32397975&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking.&lt;p&gt;After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are as visually appealing and reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s.  Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965, and begin anew.  When in doubt, don&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>calvinmorrison</author><text>the sloped design of... a current Escalade? I do doubt designers in the 50&amp;#x27;s were worried about the top of the grill hitting a full grown mans head on contact.</text></comment>