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I was today years old when I realised that cars used to have four gears because that's how many gaits a horse has...
It would be SO much more fun if car gears were referred to as walk, trot, canter and gallop. Why is this not a thing?!
(This is totally not a fact. Citation needed but I now want to refer to second gear as trotting.)
@georgepenney I think early cars tended to have three forward gears
@IanDSmith @georgepenney Yep. "Three on the tree" for column shift and "Four on the floor" for stick. I'm pretty sure that gearing choices boiled down to engineering trade-offs.
depends what you mean by early 3 on the tree va. 4 on floor wasn't until me mid-twentieth century.
@gnu2 I'm merely noting that three gears was such a common standard that there were slogans denoting it and that the idea of four gears being related to horses is unlikely.