i discovered today that driving an automatic-transmission car is very much less stressful than the stick-shift!
by far...
you just let the car DRIVE, REVERSE, PARK, and press on the accelerator or brakes with ONE foot!
NO CLUTCH! no crazy gear-shifts to beat the free-way... & NO SLIPPING down the hill when you do a hill-start because you didn't get the bite on the clutch and the accelerator with the right proportion of feet-pressure... & NO crazy multi-tasking... WOW!
geez... i should have learnt driving in an automatic! it would have made life on the road less miserable...
guess i had to learn the hard way, always. baaaah.
oh well... at least now i can go fast without worrying about changing to the 5th gear whenever i get to drive an automatic-car! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Hey, it's fantastic that you know how to drive the stick shift. It's far better than the automatic transmission. You get two for the price of one when you learnt the stick shift....Trust me, you'll not regret learning the stick shift....I missed it :)
Posted by: Gor on Saturday, 7 October, 2006 at 13:30 hrsHaha, but once you start driving an auto, you'll slowly lose touch with the clutch and changing of gears......i was so glad when we bought an auto,(of course, i contributed to the making of this impt decision ...:)
Posted by: Lynette on Monday, 9 October, 2006 at 00:23 hrsheee.... well, i didn't have a choice... in the UK and most places on the Continent, automatic-cars are few and far between... here, many of my hippy colleagues own a manual car because it is cheaper... i am really amazed how much less-stressful driving an automatic is particularly if you have to get on the highway... changing gears scares me if you have to do it really quickly and everyone is approaching you from behind at incredible speeds!... then again, it could be that certain manual cars aren't made for nervous female drivers!
i guess i appreciate that the mechanics of the car are more complicate than what you do in the automatic-transmission...
it's incredible that you could pretty much only rent an automatic here in the US... i literally walked along my neighbours' cars parked outside the aparment buildings... NONE of them were manual! incredible.
i still don't know which i prefer... but i like the automatic because it's less nerve-wrecking... but it's weird to move the stick up and down instead of all the possible directions like in the manual!
geez... i'd be so confused when i get back and try to drive on the 'wrong' side! i never cease to challenge myself! rah.
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