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It looks really hard and unsafe to drive a manual. How do you know which gears to shift while driving and how do you make sure you shift correctly while keeping your eyes on the road and hands on steering wheel? It looks like driving manuals is hard work, do people actually enjoy driving a manual?
The reason you're asking is because you don't know how to do it. Take lessons and it will become natural. And no, it's not unsafe, all Europeans drive manuals.
But it can be on the dead pedal! Yes, you read that right OP - a FOURTH pedal down there!
Don't tell anyone, but I miss my crank windows. Now someone can't just roll up my windows if it starts raining and they are in the parking lot (whoever runs out first closes as many windows as they can). And I once left the keys in the ignition because I had to close my windows when a flash downpour started.
I still miss crank windows even after living with power ones for 14 years. I’d gladly take cranks over electronics. And why the fk do autos no longer have a keyhole in both doors??!!! It’s always good to have a purely mechanical thing in case the electronic things fail.
It looks really hard and unsafe to drive a manual. How do you know which gears to shift while driving and how do you make sure you shift correctly while keeping your eyes on the road and hands on steering wheel? It looks like driving manuals is hard work, do people actually enjoy driving a manual?
I learned to drive on manual and while annoying, it is not hard... for the gear, just go1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4... Ten in highway, go 5
Years ago I was second in line at a traffic light next to North Gate mall, at the traffic light with snow on the ground, when the light changed, the panel wagon in front of me hit me hard doing lots of damage. Driver had just bought it, and forgot it was a 3 speed tyanny not the 4 speed he had just traded in, put in reverse instead of low and being in snow gave it lots of gas destroyed the whole front of my 6 months old car.
It seems as though the O.P. has left the building--again. (True to form, I'm sure that he'll return with another Houston-themed handle at some point. )
If I was in a place where everyone thought I was a moron, I'd leave too.
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For what it's worth, it's been fun reading about other posters' experiences over the years driving stick shift vehicles!
When I bought my first XR4Ti, I didn't know how to drive a stick.
My sister gave me lessons in her Mazda GLC and test drove the Merkur with me as the passenger.
Then I bought it and learned on the fly.
I got good enough to where I could hold it in place on a hill without touching the brakes.
It looks really hard and unsafe to drive a manual. How do you know which gears to shift while driving and how do you make sure you shift correctly while keeping your eyes on the road and hands on steering wheel? It looks like driving manuals is hard work, do people actually enjoy driving a manual?
Put 150k commuter miles on my manual trans car , much of it in stop and go traffic while on my 76 mile daily commute. Also was able to drink my coffee and talk on the phone. I neither liked or disliked it.
I was self-taught on a manual transmission. Once you learn, it becomes second nature on when to shift. I enjoyed driving a manual but unfortunately, a lot of my time was spent in rush hour traffic where it's not so fun to keep changing gears every couple seconds.
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