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| Thread ID: 111707 | 2010-08-08 07:48:00 | Death to the manual gearbox. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1125626 | 2010-08-08 07:48:00 | Here. (www.nzherald.co.nz) :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1125627 | 2010-08-08 08:22:00 | Dixon said that when she started as an instructor in 2004, 85 per cent of her students were learning to drive in a manual. Now it is only 35 per cent and 65 per cent are learning in automatics. Pretty sure this is a bad thing aye. All people should have to learn how to drive in a manual imo. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 1125628 | 2010-08-08 08:29:00 | Only real men (and women! :rolleyes:) drive manual! | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1125629 | 2010-08-08 08:31:00 | I'm not sure it it's still the case but at one time if you got your licence in an automatic it was endorsed so you could only drive an automatic. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1125630 | 2010-08-08 08:31:00 | Pretty sure this is a bad thing aye. All people should have to learn how to drive in a manual imo. Why? If they're never going to drive one, what's the point? I learnt to drive in a manual because at the time automatics weren't as common (or cheap) as they are now, and drove one for a number of years. These days I drive an automatic because there's no real reason not to. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1125631 | 2010-08-08 08:33:00 | Only on restricted license. You can get your full in an auto and drive manual. More than once I have driven an auto after driving a manual for ages and automatically slam my foot on the brake thinking its the clutch. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1125632 | 2010-08-08 08:37:00 | More than once I have driven an auto after driving a manual for ages and automatically slam my foot on the brake thinking its the clutch. In my current car (auto) the "handbrake" is just a little bit further to the left of where the clutch pedal would be in a manual. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 1125633 | 2010-08-08 08:45:00 | I've not long taught my 1st to drive in a manual. No 2 starts at the end of the year, if the rules don't change. | wotz (335) | ||
| 1125634 | 2010-08-08 08:57:00 | Only on restricted license . You can get your full in an auto and drive manual . More than once I have driven an auto after driving a manual for ages and automatically slam my foot on the brake thinking its the clutch . How? As long as you never, ever left-foot brake, your left foot only ever does clutch, or sits on the foot rest . At least that's how I was taught, and I've never jumped on the brake . I did recently forget to put the clutch in when coming to a stop however . . . . :rolleyes: |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1125635 | 2010-08-08 09:04:00 | The problem arises when you automatically go to put your left foot on the clutch and right on the brake .... on the earlier Ford Falcon's the brake pedal was wide enough to take both feet .... amazing stopping power :eek: | SP8's (9836) | ||
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