I'm probably a little rusty on a manual transmission, since my manual-transmission car hasn't moved in quite some time, but I still think I prefer it. Every so often I'll be on the highway or something in an automatic, floor it, and be very, very annoyed that it won't pick up my hint to downshift.
Also, automatic transmissions have creeped me out ever since I learned that they weren't just manual transmissions with some cleverness attached, but were in fact a different and somewhat alien technology.
I no longer have the confidence and/or stupidity that made me capable, when I was in high school, of driving a stick-shift car in NoVa traffic while eating fast food with whichever limb was momentarily available.
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Date: 2010-02-05 02:57 am (UTC)Also, automatic transmissions have creeped me out ever since I learned that they weren't just manual transmissions with some cleverness attached, but were in fact a different and somewhat alien technology.
I no longer have the confidence and/or stupidity that made me capable, when I was in high school, of driving a stick-shift car in NoVa traffic while eating fast food with whichever limb was momentarily available.