Anonymous wrote:If you can’t drive a manual transmission car, your father failed to prepare you for life.

Did your father teach you how to ride a horse? That is a more useful skill than driving a manual.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions. Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons:
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive.
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions.
-michael



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None of your reasons for driving a manual are true anymore or never been true, like you cannot eat while driving. Of course, you can, you only need both hands 1% of the time. The only real reason for driving a manual is you inherited a 30 year old civic from your grandpa and instead of junking it decided to take it to the track[/quote]

The real reason for driving a manual is because you enjoy the act of driving as much, or more, than the mere utility of getting to the destination. [/quote]


You mean you enjoy the act of shifting? You can’t possibly enjoy driving a manual. It actually distracts you from the act of driving.

Anonymous wrote:The real reason for driving a manual is because you enjoy the act of driving as much, or more, than the mere utility of getting to the destination.

I agree. Driving anything other than a manual is like driving in a soulless metal box.

Anonymous wrote:If you can’t drive a manual transmission car, your father failed to prepare you for life.

I guess I better trade in my manual since my mom taught me. That said since having kids I prefer the automatic

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions. Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons:
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive.
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions.
-michael

None of your reasons for driving a manual are true anymore or never been true, like you cannot eat while driving. Of course, you can, you only need both hands 1% of the time. The only real reason for driving a manual is you inherited a 30 year old civic from your grandpa and instead of junking it decided to take it to the track

The real reason for driving a manual is because you enjoy the act of driving as much, or more, than the mere utility of getting to the destination.

Anonymous wrote:This is a great article:
https://gmtma.org/killing-pedestrians/

"Stephen Dubner asked a critical question, “Drivers in every country have phones. So why would pedestrian deaths be so much worse here?” American roads are engineered for efficiency for the automobile and speed. As mentioned above, this design flaw causes an increase in crashes. Strayer stated that manual transmissions are very prominent in other countries, whereas in the U.S., most cars are automatic. Driving a manual transmission requires a lot more focus from the driver and eliminates the desire to engage in reckless distractions."

There is another simple explanation -- it is very easy to steer and text but hard to steer, text and shift gears.

This is a great article:
https://gmtma.org/killing-pedestrians/

"Stephen Dubner asked a critical question, “Drivers in every country have phones. So why would pedestrian deaths be so much worse here?” American roads are engineered for efficiency for the automobile and speed. As mentioned above, this design flaw causes an increase in crashes. Strayer stated that manual transmissions are very prominent in other countries, whereas in the U.S., most cars are automatic. Driving a manual transmission requires a lot more focus from the driver and eliminates the desire to engage in reckless distractions."

Anonymous wrote:I am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions. Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons:
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive.
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions.
-michael

None of your reasons for driving a manual are true anymore or never been true, like you cannot eat while driving. Of course, you can, you only need both hands 1% of the time. The only real reason for driving a manual is you inherited a 30 year old civic from your grandpa and instead of junking it decided to take it to the track

Anonymous wrote:Go on tinder and look for guys Who can drive a stick. Make then buy you dinner and drinks on way home let them teach you to drive a stick.

Don’t laugh I know a sine lady, plumbing, electrical, moving heavy items that’s how she does it.

Men are stupid

Call me - I'll have you driving "stick" immediately!

Don’t waste a dime teach you in a peace of shit old PU truck that has the loosest piece of shit clutch, you can shift w/o using the clutch

If you can’t drive a manual transmission car, your father failed to prepare you for life.

I am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions. Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons:
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive.
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions.
-michael

I am in my third season of teaching how to drive manuals. I work with Stick shift Driving Academy in my region. I have a very high success rate and take pride in it. I own a 5speed, 5cylinder station wagon, a powerful car. We cannot take it on public highways due to insurance restrictions. Where I teach, there is a decent hill in the middle of the parking lot so trainees get to practice incline starts in both forward and reverse.The low gear maneuvers I teach are the hardest to do. That includes stop and go traffic, slow, creeping along traffic, and parallel parking. Higher speeds do not require as much finite attention. Manuals are better for several reasons:
1.The most expensive repair on a car is the transmission.the driver of a manual IS the transmission so drive repairs are generally less expensive.
2. Because the driver of a manual has more control over the drive/ spin of the wheels, they can get through snow and ice covered roads more easily and safely.
3.Also because of the control over revs, manuals generally use less fuel.
4.Here is my favorite advantage of driving manuals:For the most part of driving a manual, both feet and usually both hands are busy driving the vehicle, which means the driver cannot be eating, or texting, or doing other things which means the driver needs to be pretty much "hands free" to drive and does so with a lot fewer unnecessary distractions.
-michael

Anonymous wrote:Re - Stick Shift Driving Academy
Sheer waste of time and money, They mention uphill and downhill. Nothing is taught. You are not even allowed to drive on the road. And you are not even shown how to change to 3rd Gear. You will just be shown to drive on a small parking lot with just 1st Gear and 2nd Gear. It is not worth a 3 hour lesson.

And this is exactly what you need to learn with an instructor in terms of basics. First gear is the hardest. Second is much easier but still rough for novices. The rest is piece of cake. If you learnt this in 3 hours you did great. Now go and practice on an empty flat street by yourself. When you are relatively proficient come back and ask for an uphill start lesson. Many newer manual cars do have an uphill assist as well as automatic downshift rev matching.

Anonymous wrote:Re - Stick Shift Driving Academy
Sheer waste of time and money, They mention uphill and downhill. Nothing is taught. You are not even allowed to drive on the road. And you are not even shown how to change to 3rd Gear. You will just be shown to drive on a small parking lot with just 1st Gear and 2nd Gear. It is not worth a 3 hour lesson.

You don't need to be shown how to shift to third once you've gotten the hang of shifting from first gear to second gear, it's exactly the same process.