27 May 2013, 8:33 am
duncvis wrote:
I suspect in part preference may also vary depending on folk's individual autism related issues - for example, my elder son is significantly dyspraxic and would undoubtedly struggle to incorporate the hand/foot/eye coordination plus attention to his surroundings required to successfully drive a manual car in UK traffic, hence him qualifying for a bus pass. I have no such difficulties, nor does my younger autistic son. Your mileage may vary - a point worth pondering I think.
That's partly why I use an auto, I thought I would be far too clumsy to use a manual so I started in an auto to get the test done with faster, but I've tried a manual and it's not that dire, but since I'm used to automatic I might as well use it for now.
(Although since it's an ancient Jeep the auto box doesn't actually work so I have to drive it semi-manually anyway
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I've never heard anyone get on their high horse about wiggling a foot and hand ever so slightly more than someone else, at least in the UK anyway.
27 May 2013, 8:42 am
Chummy wrote:
Well?? Why do men who can drive only automatic cars, like me, get responses like "p****", "Grandma", etc.
C'mon people be more mature.... (I didn't get that response personally but it's pretty common for many men). It's so stupid. Sometime I wish I was a woman. Men are generally expected to achieve more, a high salary job, a good house, be savvy with how to repair everything.... While if a woman is unemployed it's considered "ok" because she has to take care of the children, laundry, cooking etc. I mean I ain't a chauvinist - I advocate the 50-50 method.... but c'mon those conservative "primitive" men are annoying me! dang it XD
C'mon people be more mature.... (I didn't get that response personally but it's pretty common for many men). It's so stupid. Sometime I wish I was a woman. Men are generally expected to achieve more, a high salary job, a good house, be savvy with how to repair everything.... While if a woman is unemployed it's considered "ok" because she has to take care of the children, laundry, cooking etc. I mean I ain't a chauvinist - I advocate the 50-50 method.... but c'mon those conservative "primitive" men are annoying me! dang it XD
I agree and as a feminist I´d say, everyone driving an automatic car is a pussie. Sorry, bad joke. I´d say it simply a thing of getting used to it, so in the USA, where I think you have many automatic cars you dont need that much to get used to it, while in Europe earlier or later you simply have to practice with it, at least when your car is broken. But my father really liked it, he was bus driving all day, and after a holiday in the USA when he first drove automatic, afterwards when his old car had to be trashed, he searched for one with automatic.
27 May 2013, 8:58 am
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31 May 2013, 1:56 am
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