[Ads-l] Manually--now also by foot? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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When power brakes (hydraulically assisted) brakes started to become prominent, weren't non-power brakes typically called "manual brakes"?

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> > On Jul 22, 2015, at 4:30 AM, Margaret Lee =
> <0000006730deb3bf-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> > Subaru  has released a notice to owners of their Outback, Crosstrek, =
> and Legacy models that the vehicles' Eyesight Driver Assist System is = now a safety hazard due to a "brake lamp switch failure."  Eyesight is
> a = safety device that is supposed to warn the driver of an imminent frontal = collision and automatically stop the vehicle. In light of this
> safety = defect, the driver will now have to "manually apply the brake pedal,"  = according to the notice.  Does _manually_  now also mean
> performed by = the foot?
> 
> If not, it sounds *extremely* inconvenient for the driver.  (But at = least for me, "manually" has already generalized to "non-automatically"
> = or "in a one-by-one-manner" in electronic contexts, e.g. having to = change the footnote numbers in a document "manually" as opposed
> to using = a global command. (You're still using the computer  The OED sort of = alludes to this extended use, but not as explicitly as they
> might, in = the "later use" half of the basic definition:
> 
> manually, adv.
> 1a. With or using the hand or hands; by manual operation or = intervention. In later use: by human effort rather than by automatic, =
> electronic, etc., means.
> 
> And the one cite still does involve a contrast between electronic and = human energy, rather than between using a less automatized rather
> than a = more automatized method:
> 
> 1991   What Personal Computer Dec. 105/3   This meant the =
> computer-generated statement of accounts couldn't be used, and had to be = recalculated manually.
> 
> Is there another dictionary that contains the relevant meaning? (AHD =
> doesn't.)  Notice that the use of "manually" I have in mind doesn't even = need to involve the use of fingers or hands on a keyboard:
> 
> "Hawking couldn't get the program to work, so he had to do the = computation on his laptop manually", where neither method involves
> using = his fingers but the two differ in degree of automaticity. =20
> 
> LH
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