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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 154 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Brake*

Sorry, just bugged me ><

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago

depends on if you're being followed by a cyber truck too closely, or not.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Likewise

NGL I stole this meme and was stoo lazy to fix it

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Too*

(You asked for this. Asked for it!)

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You’d be surprised how many “normal” people don’t know the difference

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Peek and peak upsets me all the time too! "Duel wield" is another one. While we're at it, people who pronounce melee as Me Lee. It should sound like May Lay.

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[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Far left pedal is the clutch, not a second "break"

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, that's the anti-theft device.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Only works in America though

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[–] marius@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

No, it's just a foot rest

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it's an automatic and that's a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)

[–] mephiska@fedia.io 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's generally called the dead pedal and yes, it's basically a footrest for your left foot. This meme is just awful and misspelled brake.

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[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That looks like a dead pedal (foot rest), not a clutch pedal. Normally only the gas pedal has a full pedal face on it. A clutch pedal normally looks like a brake pedal.

Edit: Eh someone already said this but I agree with them.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Forgot to label Earth as accelerator

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not to mention the driver’s hands and feet!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Petrol. Gas isn't even a gas.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

*Gasoline or diesel. Petroleum has to be refined first before use in a car.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Rich, from the kind of person who thinks there's an F in "lieutenant."

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[–] Brosplosion@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Is it an accelerator? Or is it a jerk pedal? Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

I definitely have friends

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

Technically it controls the amount of air and/or fuel delivered to the engine (in a gas engine, the pedal directly controls airflow; in a diesel engine it directly controls fuel flow)

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[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction. The steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal all accelerate the vehicle.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction

They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. It’s called snap or jounce.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

And fifth/sixth derivatives are crackle and pop because some physicists thought it would be funny to have it be “snap crackle and pop”

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Increasing speed -> acceleration Decreasing speed -> negative acceleration Changing direction -> Vector acceleration(change in velocity)

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[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So normal people don't have an education? It is brake, how do you people keep making this mistake?

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

It's an Alfa, "Break" might be the correct terminology /s

Joke of course, I love Alfa's!

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

Love this

~ physicist

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you fucking learn homonyms if you're going to make an entire ass meme about something?

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I learned something today.

I was taught in my younger days that “homonyms” were words that were spelled the same but pronounced differently, and “homophones” were words that were pronounced the same but spelled differently. “Break” and “brake” would then be homophones.

But it turns out “homonym” is the broader category including “homophones,” “homographs,” and words where both are true (same spelling and pronunciation, but different meanings). So homophones are homonyms.

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P.S. Though Wikipedia says a more technical definition would limit “homonym” to, specifically, the third category, words that are spelled and pronounced the same but with different meanings. They give examples of “stalk” (part of a plant) and “stalk” (follow/harass a person), or “skate” (glide on ice) and “skate” (a type of fish).

P.P.S. This reminds me of the autoantonym (a word that is its own opposite) “cleave,” which can mean “to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly” or “to split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.“ I don’t know if “cleave” is technically a homonym, or if these are simply two definitions for the same word, and I don’t know who would decide that. But it’s still a fun word.

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[–] credo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay student, now turn the accelerator and feather the accelerator as you accelerate into the curve, then press the accelerator to accelerate your acceleration out the curve.

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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, one of them is the "don't accelerate" pedal you use to switch gears.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think that car has a dead pedal, otherwise that is the fattest clutch pedal I have seen by a longshot.

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[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're applying acceleration to the gear switcher

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Is the window my frame of reference?

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was "break wind". 😆💨

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

“Accelerate… Decelerate” — Simon Phoenix

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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