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[mamamoira.livejournal.com]

I am fundamentally incapable of driving a manual transmission. My dad spent a good long afternoon trying to teach me, and all I could manage to do was to either stall or spin tires madly. I simply cannot manage to move both feet in different ways at the same time. I suspect if the action of the accelerator and clutch were identical (the clutch pedal moves WAY DIFFERENTLY than the gas pedal does, which is bad for me), then...maybe I could get the hang of it. Still moving in opposite directions, essentially. I'm just not that coordinated. :)

On the other hand, I learned to drive on Toyotas with that nice automatic tranny that you could get to change gears on your timeframe instead of its, if you tapped the pedal just right, so I have an appreciation of the increased control desired. My minivan now ('98 Caravan) has one of those "learning" trannies that over time learns your driving pattern and accomodates its shifting pattern to you. Not quite as good, but pretty decent; I can certainly tell the difference between when I'm driving it and when my husband is (which is rarely).