A French automobile company once marketed a car with an unusual clutch mechanism in the United States. To disengage the gears prior to shifting, the driver had to depress the accelerator all the way to the floor
American drivers of this car never mastered this procedure and after numerous accidents and lawsuits the company stopped selling the car here. The difficulty with shifting this car was due to ______.
a. functional fixedness c. heuristics
b. bottom up processing d. overapplication of algorithms
A
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