Reply to post: Re: "Mechanical Sympathy" and magic

Naughty sysadmins use dark magic to fix PCs for clueless users

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Re: "Mechanical Sympathy" and magic

"In the same way that some people understand how cars work, so don't treat the accelerator as a binary control"

Oddly, I understood how the accelerator worked when I was learning to drive, but still had the bad habit- picked up on by my driving instructor- of doing this.

I actually wondered at the time whether this was a symptom of having grown up playing racing video games with an old Atari-type digital (i.e. on/off) joystick where the accelerator *was* effectively binary. Or maybe I was just a crap driver, who knows...

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