The Perennial Favourite: Japanese Vs. German Engineering.

[Kowalski]

Thanks for the video Kowalski! Very nice. I gotta try it in my car. I am curious about if the brake pedal overrides the gas pedal.

BTW, in such a situation, it is totally clear, the supremacy of a manual trasmission over an automatic one. An automatic transmission can get stuck, and not go into neutral, while on a manual transmission car, you have complete control on the clutch! So, it's much safer!

In case you are driving an automatic car with a stuck throttle pedal, you just move the gear lever into neutral; the engine will over rev, but it won't send power to the wheels and of course with the engine still running, it means you still have control over the steering and the brakes to bring the car to a halt.

 

[Giannis]

But, if I am not mistaken, in automatic transmissions, the gear lever isn't physically connected to the gearbox. It sends a message to the transmission proccessor, and it then sends a message to the transmission, to change gear, or put it in neutral. What if all that sequence jams, and even though you put it in N, the transmission, doesn't respond?

In manual transmission cars, the gear lever is physically connected to the transmission, so unless you crack your gears, you have total control over it.

edit; the biggest minus of an automatic transmission, is not the absence of a clutch pedal, but the fact that you cannot heel'n'toe or doubleclutch a shift