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2020-07-23

by shaenon on July 23, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox
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  1. dexitroboper
    July 23, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Do trucks usually have auto gearboxes? Otherwise that things just going to stall.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 23, 2020, 12:17 am | # | Reply

      We had a couple automatics where I used to work. One of them even had a push-button selector, so there’s no unwieldy shift lever to contend with.

      • greenknight32
        July 23, 2020, 12:55 am | # | Reply

        Considering the quality of A-Sig’s recruits, I’d say automatics were pretty much a necessity.

      • Robert Nowall
        July 23, 2020, 11:31 am | # | Reply

        Push-button gear shift? Wasn’t that one of the things that killed the Edsel? ‘Course with modern electronics in cars, it might work better…

        • awgiedawgie
          July 23, 2020, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

          Well, the Edsel was a bit before my time, so I couldn’t say.

          This one was a Freightliner straight truck with a 24 foot flat dump bed for hauling lumber. The push-button bit worked great. But it rode like a tank, so we nicknamed it the “freight shaker”.

          Unfortunately, it was also the newest truck we had, so it was the best one for pulling a trailer. And I must have complained the least about driving it, because I always got elected to take it on all-day runs across the state whenever we had one. (Of course, it also may have been because my position was no longer “driver” at that point, so they could stick me in a truck all day without affecting the regular deliveries.)

          • Robert Nowall
            July 23, 2020, 5:37 pm | #

            The modern cars, nothing’s really connected to anything else, except by wires—that way they can cram more wires into the steering column, along with, well, the steering column.

    • soft
      July 23, 2020, 9:24 am | # | Reply

      Yup, to add to what awgiedawgie said, my father’s a truck driver. A few months ago when I saw him I remember him talking about how the company he’s working for is trying to convert all their trucks over to automatic. In part because of all the “young” drivers that don’t know how to drive stick properly and so grind all the gears….

      • D. Walker
        July 23, 2020, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

        That’s definitely part of it, but the other part is that manual is simply obsolete now.

        Modern automatics are as good or better in virtually every situation, and automakers are now phasing out manuals entirely over time. This affects logistics and supply lines too – they’re not going to keep making parts for a dying control standard, and existing vehicles are aging into replacement. Manual just doesn’t make enough sense going forward any more.

        • casimir
          July 23, 2020, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

          …or going in reverse either.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 23, 2020, 5:18 pm | #

            I award you an internet for that.

          • casimir
            July 23, 2020, 9:17 pm | #

            When I see low hanging fruit I’m gonna pick it.

    • Frank
      July 23, 2020, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

      it is very much the preference of the driver

  2. Robert Nowall
    July 23, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I’d put the safe and serious and sober ones on the brake pedal. Are there any?

    • BMunro
      July 23, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but to a fox they look and sound just like the crazy and reckless ones.

    • Towering Barbarian
      July 23, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      After that time with Aesop they’ve let their victory over The Rabbit go to their heads. ^_^

      • BMunro
        July 23, 2020, 12:34 am | # | Reply

        This isn’t slow and steady! This isn’t slow and steady at all!

        • awgiedawgie
          July 23, 2020, 12:36 am | # | Reply

          Slow and steady may win the race, but fast and reckless is a lot more fun.

          • BMunro
            July 23, 2020, 2:28 pm | #

            It’s an indication of how old I’m getting that while I agree fast is more fun, I have reservations about “reckless.”

          • awgiedawgie
            July 23, 2020, 2:34 pm | #

            Oh, I have reservations about it too. I still think it’s more fun, but I’m old enough to know that “reckless” is synonymous with “stupid”, and awfully close to “suicidal”.

  3. palenouye
    July 23, 2020, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Who knew turtles were such rebels? Maybe they rebel so slowly we don’t notice.

    • Nomi
      July 23, 2020, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      Upvote.

  4. Robert Nowall
    July 23, 2020, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Be careful how fast you go, Renard. Burt Reynolds isn’t running interference with Smokey for you…

    • OneUniverse
      July 23, 2020, 10:32 am | # | Reply

      Just wait for the local yokel to fill out the speeding ticket…

  5. Bubble181
    July 23, 2020, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    Anyone ever read the Bromeliad trilogy by Pratchett? The turtles might be able to learn a little bit about controlling trucks.

    • davidbreslin101
      July 23, 2020, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      Yay! Not to mention driving JCBs… I’m still a bit sad that that [SPOILERS] they didn’t actually get to fly a jet.

  6. Judas Jurgen
    July 23, 2020, 6:33 am | # | Reply

    This scene’s theme song:

  7. Frank
    July 23, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

    “Brake team! Where’s the brake team?!”
    “Oh, we needed one?”

    • awgiedawgie
      July 23, 2020, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry, Renard, we didn’t bring enough turtles to operate two pedals.

  8. Shadowmehr
    July 23, 2020, 1:06 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, I’m willing to admit I was completely off base yesterday. Who knew turtles could be speed demons? Aside from a certain hare, of course.

    • D. Walker
      July 23, 2020, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Marine biologists, that’s who.

    • BMunro
      July 23, 2020, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

      IIRC, sloths in the Zootopia-verse are also speed demons once you get them behind the wheel of a car.

  9. palenoue
    July 23, 2020, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

    Hey! An interview with Shaenon!
    https://youtu.be/-2L60CLjdXo

    • palenoue
      July 23, 2020, 8:03 pm | # | Reply

      How do you embed a video here?

      • awgiedawgie
        July 24, 2020, 2:09 am | # | Reply

        If memory serves, you have to use the full URL (https:// www dot youtube dot com /watch?v=videoID – with no spaces, obviously), rather than the short URL that you did. It also has to be on its own line, but it looks like you did that part right.

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