How sparsely it’s policed
I wonder what Billie’s going to do. I never know what S1 and S2 on an automatic gearbox do. Does one of them make you go faster than the other? Is it “Sport 1” and “Sport 2”? Does it have something to do with “engine braking”? My first car had a switch you could press on the side of the gearstick and I used to try to have it in each setting 50% of the time because I didn’t know which one was “right”.
Ah, this is one of those plans where you’re guaranteed to feel smug afterwards. Because if it doesn’t work, you’re too dead to feel anything.
Dramatic shifting of an automatic gearbox. Like watching someone mimic probowling with the guards up!
I don’t really ever drive automagic cars but what gear box has S1 and S2? Isn’t there just L or M or S or 1 & 2 or maybe D1 & D2?
my guess is these would be overdrive and high-torque options – I didn’t grow up driving an automatic and I never take my suv out of ‘drive’ (even going up a mountain I didn’t need ‘x mode’) so I’m not completely sure. My mom’s old automatic does have an L mode you can use to get more torque (likely it’s just an undershift option?)
So really, if you hit L going at like 35-45 mph, you would probably get a burst of speed since the torque would jump up, something like downshifting in a manual.
In my old Camaro, when the brakes were failing beyond my repair budget’s remediation ability, I used to use the automatic transmission like it was manual, throwing it into different gears deliberately to help slow it down as I approached stop signs and the like.
Bit of a wonder I never got in any accidents, tbh
I grew up on manuals. he first time I drove an automatic I was powering around some hills and came up on a corner a bit fast. Instinctively I threw it down a gear, which put it in Low and locked the back wheels for a moment, making me turn the corner in a controlled slide before powering away.
Looking back I’m not sure how I avoided mangled, crunching noises in the transmission – but it was a rental and you know what they say…
Automatics (well, at least the ancient ones you are likely talking about) have liquid friction transmissions. That’s why they use more gasoline and why you won’t ruin the clutch or have gear cogs flying through your motor hood doing almost anything. Chances are that you were restricting the gears it is allowed to use, which would be pretty much on-spot for the situation at hand, except possibly unnecessary. It wouldn’t cause the wheels to lock, though, so you probably added a good dosage of braking in the belief you were fondling the non-existing clutch pedal.
The one thing an automatic is dangerous with is that you cannot let go of the brake pedal while standing without creeping forward and likely running over someone’s toes.
I assume the intent is to show how fast they are going. I think those lower options encourage the transmission to hold lower gears longer (probably giving you faster acceleration at lower speed?) However action I think ya’ll are trying to mimic is that shot of dramatically taking a higher gear in a manual transmission which in an automagic equates to dramatically turning that O/D button on, so the car can take that higher gear.
We got a demon autobot expert in here lads
Dramatically taking a higher gear? I’m usually dramatically taking a lower gear when I need a burst of power in the old Mazda, comin’ up those hills. Usually when I’m taking a high gear it’s cause I’m cruisin’. Am I supposed to be driving more dramatically? Darn.
Google says S1 and S2 limit the auto transmission to 1st or 1st+2nd gear, for more torque/lower speeds, such as you might need when climbing hills, pulling trailers, or driving in snow.
But none of those things seems to make sense here, so Billie is probably assuming something else (like higher gear/more speed?) Or maybe Billie does know about S1/S2, and is getting ready for something that she knows lies ahead in the road, aside from the chance to see the fishies up close?
IRL, I might expect shifting into S1 when going warp 7 might be like stomping hard on the brakes, and/or leave bits of your transmission scattered around the road.
Unless there is a safety thing in there, to avoid those expensive repairs? ….. HAhAHAHahahhaa.
…. unless the car has a mind of its own.
I see there’s a car drinking station ahead, according to the sign.
I hear the Rectory has one of those, but for motorcycles.
You can drive a car to water, but can’t make it drink.
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
Pencils are graphite. Zeppelins are led.
How does the rest of the rhyme go?
The car’s tyres are rubber with plenty of tread.
Pencils are graphite
Zeppelins are led
you’re pretty cute
let’s go to bed
But you CAN make it sink.
My only confident prediction: Reverend Penrose will never, ever let Billy drive any vehicle he will be riding in again.
I don’t know. This is the guy who was going to try to get a sea monster to swallow him so he could punch his way out, killing it from inside.
Fine. Let me qualify that: Reverend Penrose will never let Billy drive any vehicle he will be riding in, UNLESS doing so would somehow help to defeat a sea monster.
You don’t think he’d put a self-aware AI car that can drive itself into the same category as a sea monster?
Maybe Billie is going to drive it INTO A SEA MONSTER??!
I really like Billie’s face in panel 3.
Steeple XIII: Cornwall Drift
Chaste & Curious 2: Cornwall Drift ?
Billie knows Penrose very well and he knows that he can always believe in her. Maybe the last part could change forever veeeery soon.
Yes! I love how in panel 3 he’s bracing himself but is not telling her stop….for now.
GO BILLIE GO!!
Reminds me of some Jan & Dean… with some light alterations.
“She drives real fast and she drives real hard,
She’s the terror of Leads-To-The-Sea Boulevard.
It’s the little young Satanist from Tredregyn!
GO BILLIE, GO BILLIE, GO BILLIE, GO!”
I hope we get an Initial D reference, at least one. (If there has been one and I missed it, oh well)
Not a series I’d heard of, but having looked at the art in the manga, I understand what you are saying.
Does frame 4 reveal that the Reverend keeps a supply of Werther’s Originals in the car?
First the driving gloves, and now this; it’s all beginning to make sense…
You caught him
And a packet of Polos.
And a pair of binoculars, for sea monster spotting!
Maybe a matching flat cap?
Nice foreshadowing at the the end there, for them as needs it.
I (slow) have only just realized that Magus Tom is modelled on Aleister Crowley. Eccentricity has its limits, but you (as a nation) are nowhere near them yet.
Are we about to see a flying car?
Or maybe it will float.
What’s the blue thing lying on the side of the road? And or those rocks next to it, or bottles?
Perhaps a drunkard sleeping it off?
I was wondering about that, as well.
So you’re asking: “What’s that blue thing doing here?”
Something grabbed a hold of my hand
Looks like someone’s bin bag they’ve tossed out the window.
Oh no! It’s Chekov’s blue bag!
It’s roadside junk!!! There are whole comics in the archive that don’t get this much discussion!
OR IS IT ROADSIDE JUNK
I’ll be honest I was afraid she was going to go sit on some train tracks.
But also I don’t have any idea what the rail system in the UK is like as a whole, let alone in Cornwall.
The driving is not all that maniac. The toffee has not been flung off the console yet :}
It been sitting in a hot car for a few days. It’s stuck in place.
Maybe the car’s a toffee magnet.
Maybe the car is haunted by the ghost of famous toffee magnate sir Edward Sharp, and he has turned the car into a toffee magnet, because he thinks that is a terribly clever pun.
I have no idea how to drive an automatic car, and have absolutely no desire to learn after all these years of proper cars!
S1 and S2. Side 1 and Side 2. Put it in reverse and Satan talks to you.
Paul is dead.