Nope - they quit teaching manual in driver's ed a LONG time ago. I learned how in the '70s after we bought one. Hubs taught me how in the parking lot at work after 2nd shift got off.
I sold my old F150 last week, so the only vehicles left that I drive on a regular basis are now automatics. Still, for a long time I'd have trouble driving an automatic because I kept trying to mash the clutch. (Two years of testing vehicles at the emissions station and I can switch without even blinking. It was always fun to get one with a malfunctioning synchronizer or missing a gear ...)
* Learn a manual and you can drive _any_ car, truck or whatever made.
* With a manual you're driving. People who drive automatics are just pointing their vehicle in the general direction of travel.
* I submit that if everyone drove manuals freeway traffic would be a lot smoother and rush hour wouldn't be as stressful as it is.
Bias - two of the three cars in my driveway are automatics. Ya - just try buying a new car with a stick - the salesman looks at you funny and your wife nudges you under the table to 'shut up before they think you're a crank'.
Controuble's dad ordered a stick shift van. The salesman looked at me and said I wouldn't be able to drive it, would I? I allowed as how I drove 4-on-the-floor every day (an Austin Healey 3000) and that I thought I could remember how to drive 3-on-a-tree *grin*. Currently drive a 5-speed '91 Honda Civic.
Now see, that's the point at which I would have walked out of the dealership, possibly after stopping and explaining to the manager how the salesman's sexist comment just cost a sale ...
Anyone who says "I never learned how to drive a stick" is being needlessly verbose, because they could have left off the last two words without changing the meaning.
I learned to operate a clutch when I was six (on a motorcycle). And I started driving SERIOUS clutches, on tractors, when I was twelve. Driving without a clutch is like driving naked. And not in the fun, sexy way.
I want to answer manual and would if just me - but after 5 years of trying to teach pooch manual I gave up - and with an automatic he at least does some road trip driving
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* With a manual you're driving. People who drive automatics are just pointing their vehicle in the general direction of travel.
* I submit that if everyone drove manuals freeway traffic would be a lot smoother and rush hour wouldn't be as stressful as it is.
Bias - two of the three cars in my driveway are automatics. Ya - just try buying a new car with a stick - the salesman looks at you funny and your wife nudges you under the table to 'shut up before they think you're a crank'.
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