The most recent entry in a fast-growing collection of latest tales about folks ruining automobiles with guide transmissions comes from Reddit’s u/Kanagawabatice, who posted a brief video of a Mustang in a storage with the next caption: “if you let your 7 12 months outdated begin the automobile and he forgets to take it out of substances.”

The video, as promised, exhibits the again of a pink, fifth-gen Ford Mustang that’s in a storage. The automobile might be heard beginning earlier than lurching ahead and hitting the again wall of the storage, for the reason that gearbox wasn’t into impartial.

As commenter u/Logosfidelis factors out (appropriately in my opinion), the title of this video ought to maybe be “if you overlook to take your automobile out of substances earlier than you let your 7-year-old begin it.” Certainly, the seven-year-old, who shouldn’t be but midway to being sufficiently old to own a license, can’t be blamed for not but absolutely understanding how you can function a automobile.

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Weirdly, this isn’t the primary time this has occurred. In 2020, a virtually similar accident was recorded albeit with a extra helpful Ford Mustang Shelby GT350.

Since that is changing into a pattern, that may, sadly, have tragic penalties (sorry to deliver down the temper), perhaps we should always take a second to reiterate how you can stop this from taking place.

If you begin a automobile with a guide transmission, it’s important to push the clutch pedal to the ground, be certain that the transmission is in impartial (by shifting the gear lever to the center place during which it may wiggle freely back and forth), after which flip the important thing (or press the beginning button), in any other case the automobile will lurch ahead (or backward, in the event you’ve obtained reverse engaged), similar to it did on this case. For those who aren’t planning on shifting instantly, it’s most likely finest to tug the handbrake at this level to stop the automobile from rolling away.