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Originally Posted by Summerwolf
2) Whatever works, but when you don't rely on the handbrake you can make the transition correctly, even on steep hills, without rolling backwards.
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You seem to insist that there is something oncorrect in using handbrake to start on a steep hill, and I still can't get why would it be incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Summerwolf
Apparently 1960 is when the patent was filed... so that's definitely after the manual transmission had been used for quite some time without it.
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How is this an argument? Transmissons weren't synchronized back then and required particular techniques to engage gears without grinding. It does not mean that we should employ these techniques with modern synchronized gearboxes because it's somehow "correct" .