Driving lessons

[Alkaz]

You are ^ you will always learn in a manual but can learn in an auto. Auto = pips so its better imo if you learn with manual as you will know how to do it then and you can still use auto but can still use manual if you ever had manual car.

[J0SH]

They complicate it so bad in the UK! Over here we go, answer a few easy questions (I got one like what color is a stop sign) and you are allowed to drive. Then when you are ready for your real test, you get in the automatic test car and the driving instructor drives with you and if you aren't an idiot, you pass, and trust me, you have to be pretty ******* stupid to fail.

I think all cars should be automatic, and people should be given a choice to learn manual or not.

I was watching "Little People, Big World" and it's about dwarf's in a family and it's a documentary that's filmed for various months, the kid failed the quiz like 20 times (he was a dwarf) then when he passed he could drive straight away lol, I wanna be American minus the size, I wanna drive from age 16.

[tdi]

I disagree that all cars should be automatic, as 'easy' as it is, it doesnt give you the capabilities and control that a manual has, for example, no engine braking, no gear control when cornering (ie lower gear = accelerate hard out of the corner) etc etc

they have their advantages if you do alot of motorway driving but they're not a 'drivers car'

also, learn to drive in a manual = drive auto aswell, learn in auto = have to re-take test if you want to drive a manual.

[JackBuddy]

Took me about 4/5 lessons to get the hang of everything.

[Metric1]

I have gear control, I have D3, 2 & 1.



That's the transmission in my moms car, it's got a 6-speed shift-tronic gearbox it can be driven as a manual or an automatic!

[Immenseman]

Automatics sound so much easier but there is no point lol might as well learn in a manual and if I end up in an automatic then it doesn't matter but if I learn in an auto then I can only drive auto

[Metric1]

Automatics sound so much easier but there is no point lol might as well learn in a manual and if I end up in an automatic then it doesn't matter but if I learn in an auto then I can only drive auto

I learned on a Diesel 2005.5 Volkswagen Jetta, it was hard.

[N!ck]

I have gear control, I have D3, 2 & 1.



That's the transmission in my moms car, it's got a 6-speed shift-tronic gearbox it can be driven as a manual or an automatic!

It's not though as you don't have a clutch.

[Immenseman]

your car talk has taken over my thread and i dont even understand it

[Starburst..x]

Its took me a good 9 or 10 lessons before I started getting used to the clutch, and even then I still made mistakes. Personally the clutch was the worst bit for me but trust me, one day you will get in the car and it will just suddenly click and you will have the hang of it, I know it sounds stupid but its true, quite a few people I know have said that and thats what happened with me =]
Just try not to concentrate too hard on it, as thats when I found mistakes were most easily made!