Initial V: A BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth keyboard for use with Vim
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The windshield wiper stick can clear the current buffer.
Then discovered steering wheel angle and break/clutch is not available on OBD bus in my car.
Although it should have been Toyota Corolla AE86 stick-shift then.
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ulimit -c unlimitedEdit: If you'd like to see pictures and an explanation of the ZF-8 situation there's some good ones here: https://blog.fcpeuro.com/how-to-put-the-zf-8-speed-in-neutra...
> First start by safely lifting the car in the air. We always advise using a quality floor jack and jack stands to support the vehicle. Once it is in the air, you need to gain access to the transmission. Depending on the car in question, this could be behind belly pans or covers. Once you've gained access to the transmission, locate the hex-head bolt. Use a 5mm hex bit socket on a ratchet to rotate the bolt to the right. Listen for a click as you move the foot up. The click indicates that the transmission is no longer in park, and the car will roll freely.
Yikes! Best to keep a 5mm internal hex in the glovebox.
That's what I call basic knowledge. I would understand the BMW thing to be in some database.
Even in neutral, you'll damage the diff by having the wheels drive it without a load
"Normal" for a diff is to either have the engine drive it with a load (the road) or have the road drive it with a load (then engine). Applying a driving force on it while it freewheels without a load is not good.
Anyway, someone who didn't seem to be a neighbor decided to park a big crusty step van there for a month and a neighbor must have took offence to that and called it in, because two non-flatbed Boston city police tow trucks showed up in the middle of the night to take it away. I became aware of this due to a horrible intermittent screeching sound - I opened my blinds and saw the two tow trucks, facing opposite directions and using one side of each of their hydraulic wheel lifts in tandem on the outer wheels of the step-van to pull the parallel-parked vehicle out perpendicularly into the street. Once it was out in the street they didn't bother to put it in neutral or anything, hooked the front on one of the trucks and drove away with the locked up rear tires just screeching all the way away into the night. Parts of the rubber tracks were left behind for years on that street.
The lesson to all who saw those tracks - Boston don't give no fucks about your street parked vehicle if it is deemed abandoned by the community!
[1] https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/abandoned-...
No, you won't. You do that roughly half the time in normal driving.
The automatic version does have to be set to a specific gear, and there are speed and towed distance limits.
No, on 2WD with neutral engaged nothing bad will happen.
The gearbox is going to be shifted out of park WHILE THE MECHANIC IS UNDER THE CAR.
If there is a subtle error in setting up the jack (e.g. if there is a slight gradient and the drive wheels are on the ground, so that the car is "resting" against the parking brake), shifting it into neutral could cause the car to move slightly as the longitudinal force is transferred from the parking brake to the wheel chocks / handbrake / jack / etc. If the situation is marginal, this could cause the car to fall off the jack and crush the mechanic.
It just seems like a recipe for (occasional, statistical) disaster.
Especially if the car is broken down in the road (which is where cars usually break down), and there is no tow truck but someone has a jack (e.g. the basic jack for changing the tyre) and there is pressure to get the car off the road. It's inevitable that out of all the millions of cars and people, someone will be in a hurry to jack it up using the spare tyre jack and not much else, climb under, put it in neutral without thinking of what will happen next, and get crushed.
But on the shitty jack that is supplied with car? No chance
> The gearbox is going to be shifted out of park WHILE THE MECHANIC IS UNDER THE CAR.
Yes the comment refers to “modern tow truck operators,” a field with a higher risk threshold than other occupations.
That method also works when the parking brake is set, which in cars with an electronic parking brake is quite common.
https://www.engadget.com/2010-11-19-razer-nostromo-gaming-ke...
But yes, it's an evolution on those kinds of game pads. Much more comfortable and adjustable, however.
In any case, a cool project, and the naming of it is top-notch!
I guess we can now listen to Eurobeat while programming in Vim.
Let’s start with Running in the 90s. XD
This is much better (and safer).
The use of the shifter though, is something else
Hmm, I would have thought normal mode lowercase U even if caps lock is mistakenly set.
While the automatic transmission in F1 cars allows for fine grained control of the individual gears and just automates the gear-switching, consumer cars typically control which particular gear should be used at any moment of driving, and this difference is clearly noticable while operating the vehicle.
There is also two types, torque converter based one ("classical" auto) and DSG which are closer to "automated manual", the good ones have lightning quick shifts and are overall performance-wise better than automatics on every front. Well the good, ones, bad DSGs also happened.
Just not as fun to drive.
Other than that of course an F1 gearbox is a very different and much more advanced piece of technology. I was talking about the way the user operates it, that's equal for a road car with paddles.