Good idea!!

[Boosted DSM 32]

Ok so everyone hates how their stick shift can rolls back on hills right??? NOT TO MENTION when your first learning to drive stick and theres cars right on your ass and you almost piss yourself when the car rolls back when you take your foot off the brake...

So ive been thinking, and i thought that a good invention would be if some company created something that was like a weight or sensor that could tell when the car was at an angle it would apply a small amount of pressure to the brakes until the clutch was released in first gear to stop the car from rolling backwards on a hill.. What do you guys think about that idea? i mean it wouldnt be a game changing thing, but would make driving a stick shift less scary and more enjoyable to some people

 

[crimsondragon]

Maybe people just need a driver mod.
If your foot work is not quick enough to release the brakes, blip the throttle and slip the clutch then just drive an auto.

Or put the parking brake to use. Or install a staging brake.

 

[007jimmy]

You should just get an auto then..


I like the idea though. I have personally failed on many "slight" inclines..

 

[NHerron]

Ya they have that already, it IS a great idea! You press a button I believe and the brakes lock

On big trucks I was taught to let out the clutch until truck creeps forward and then take foot off the brake. But on my car my RPM's drop so it doesn't work so well

Just gotta be quick!

I'll try to find it, I think it's Toyota

 

[19Eclipse90]

Hill-holder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[NHerron]

Yup looks like almost every auto maker has done it actually

HowStuffWorks "How Hill-Start Control Works"

Hill Start Assist - YouTube

Don't ya hate it when you design something in your head and come to find out it's already been made? I think everyone has had that happen at least once. Just don't give up thinking of new ideas!

 

[007jimmy]

Its funny that a horse and carrige has implyed this. Good info as I have not seen before. Ahhh things I learn at 3am...

 

[bryanwheat]

Just learn how to use you foot on the brake and gas at the same time and you will never have a problem on a hill.

 

[slayer450]

Just learn how to use you foot on the brake and gas at the same time and you will never have a problem on a hill.

hard to do that when you have a clutch too

 

[1983gsp]

Just use the ebrake to hold yourself on the incline......done

 

[YanDsm]

, Is this the grandma driving thread??? Just learn to drive and it's easy as hell to not go backward in a slope.

 

[Boosted DSM 32]

Haha this isnt for me!! im actually really good at driving stick i ran a 14.4 in a stock gst and thats like 18th place on dsmtuners for the t25 i was just up late last night thinkin about it and it came to me haha i like gettting stopped on hills with people around me i think its a good challenge

 

[turboglenn]

I remember being nervous about this as a teenager (especially when we were smoking pot after school just driving arouind - think the pot made us really nervous )

Anyway, over the years you get to where you really don't think about it and you just start holding the car up with some clutch drag when you know the light is about to change, or just keep rolling forward and back a few feet and most times people will not pull up as close toyou

IF i have a situation where i am worried about it for some reason (car not running right off idle or whatever) i'll just hand-hold the e-brake until i get the clutch/gas combo pulling the car and let off the brake just like staging brake but fr daily use (everything came from some where)

What's funny is i hadn't known this idea was actually implemented on cars but on my older subaru i use to show people hopw it would hold like that not knowing there really was an ECU at work doing something about it

 

[bryanwheat]

hard to do that when you have a clutch too

I do it every time i drive a car with a manual transmission. Use your heel for the brake and your toe for the gas, and your left foot for the clutch.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

I do it every time i drive a car with a manual transmission. Use your heel for the brake and your toe for the gas, and your left foot for the clutch.

Some people with size 13 shoes dont have enough footroom to finangle putting your foot in that sort of position, as EVERYONE is saying.... Thats really what the Ebrake is for, its the same concept as launching, except on a hill... and not launching if you get my drift. ( i figure there was enough explaining already done on how to do this) haha

I was gonna say something about autos having that sort of hill holder in place already but someone got there before me!

I have had many of times where i thought of a good invention only to find it plastered across my google searches