I’m doing the driving lessons and I dread them every time. I don’t feel like I’m improving much and it’s just stressful. I feel like giving up. I’m only going because I passed the theory exam with that school, and i would had to spend more money (that I don’t have) if I start again with other school, basically I’m too deep into it to stop.

Btw I now understand the hate towards manual cars. Automatic should be the only option, one less BIG distraction on the road, especially when you’re new on these things, being too soft or too rough on the clutch is a matter of millimeters is ridiculous, watching the road, the signs, the traffic lights, the cars around you, the stupid people with their bikes, while fumbling in the car with the pedals is the worst… (unfortunately you must learn manual where I’m living).

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Btw I now understand the hate towards manual cars. Automatic should be the only option

    This is a big problem with people these days. You admitted you suck at driving, you’re just barely learning how to do it, but you think you’re qualified to mandate what is available to everyone else? You do not have enough experience to have an opinion that affects other people. Stick shift is completely intuitive when you know how to do it.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Not OP, not a bad driver, have a class A (used to drive a school bus), and can drive stick.

      I still think automatic is safer just on the merit of being less to think about. Especially when you have an extra large vehicle filled with kids.

      • gnu@lemmy.zip
        2·
        3 months ago

        The thinking involved in driving a manual is very minimal once you get used to it, so I reckon any safety issues caused by that would be outweighed by a reduction in the unfortunately common situation of unintended acceleration crashes. You are lot less likely to drive through the nearest wall (or kids) if your instinctual reaction to moving when you should not be is to also go for the clutch and cut power instead of just pressing harder on the wrong pedal.

      • 0ops@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 months ago

        See this is so alien to me because I’ve been exclusively driving a manual my entire adult life and I don’t think about it. No more than I think about which pedal is the gas, which is the brake, and which direction the car goes when I turn the wheel this way. I just drive.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        Nope. You dont enjoy driving, by your own admission arent good at it but want to deprive people who are good at it of their options.

        If your crap in bed do I have to stick to missionary for the rest of my life too?