Manual Transmission Cars Help Prevent Dementia, According To New Study
According to Japan's Best Car Web, this new study comes to us from Professor Ryuta Kawashima (who helped develop Nintendo Brain Age games) of the Tohoku University’s Institute of Development, and it found that driving a manual transmission equipped car can actually stimulate the brain's prefrontal cortex in ways that an automatic cannot. Through his research, Kawashima discovered that the physical sequence of rowing through the gears is particularly stimulating for the region of the brain that controls things like attention, decision making, and memory.
Would it help to do as I do with an automatic? When you need to decelerate, downshift to control t speed o car. If you have a paddle shifter, this is even more a need for mental acuity. This also lengthens the life service brakes. In the meantime, yes, one must use one's brain.
ReplyDeleteit probably would, it's engaging the mental abilities instead of sitting and doing nothing. By the way, my philosophy is to waste the brakes, not the transmission, because it's easier to replace brakes, and REALLY cheaper
DeleteI wonder what benefit there would be if someone hypothetically pretends to shift and work a clutch pedal when driving an automatic. Asking for a friend, of course. ; )
ReplyDeleteI bet it would be the same as the benefit of the stick, without the clutch spring pressure! Lol.
DeleteOn the topic of manual shifters, did you see that Ferrari is offering a gated manual shifter for the Automated Dual Clutch transmission in one of their models? The car has a clutch pedal and you can stall the engine if you don't engage the clutch correctly. I think this is in the 12 Cylindri model.
ReplyDeleteI didn't... new car stuff rarely comes across my radar
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