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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 145 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Brake*

Sorry, just bugged me ><

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Likewise

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

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Too*

(You asked for this. Asked for it!)

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

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

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 48 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, that's the anti-theft device.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Only works in America though

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[–] marius@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

No, it's just a foot rest

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months 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 months 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 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Forgot to label Earth as accelerator

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

Not to mention the driver’s hands and feet!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Petrol. Gas isn't even a gas.

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

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

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Cookie-Chocolate-Bar

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Brosplosion@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months 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 24 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago

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

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 2 months ago

Love this

~ physicist

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months 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 months 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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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Natanael 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're applying acceleration to the gear switcher

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months 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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[–] credo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Is the window my frame of reference?

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

“Accelerate… Decelerate” — Simon Phoenix

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

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