Are Manual Cars More Gas Efficient?

A look into the tidyverse cars dataset.

Alex Beaver

6 minute read

For my first ever blog post, I thought I would start off with a simple question using a simple dataset. When I turned 16, I did what every 16 year-old in America does and immediately got behind the wheel of a car. Unlike most teenagers, the first car I got to drive had a weird third pedal and was hard to get moving. It was a manual. For the record, I still have nightmares about trying to start my old car on a steep hill.