News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How America lost its love for the stick shift. Parent comment

Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by notyourday on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:22PM (#17963923)
I find people who learned how to drive manual to be better drivers - they tend to think ahead which is understandable. One does not really want to shift just to jump ahead of one car to see that there's nowhere to go. It is too bad that fewer and fewer people have this skill.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by smileysteve on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:14PM (#17964571)
I hypothesize that outlawing the automatic transmission would have an amazing effect on traffic. If everybody is driving a manual then there will be more foresight; and at the least you're probably reducing the driving pool by 10%
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How America lost its love for the stick shift by rootusrootus on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @06:24PM (#17963934)
It definitely makes you look a little farther ahead to plan your moves so you don't have to constantly keep working the clutch to move forward another couple feet like folks with automatics do.
[ Parent | on HN ]