Can you drive a vehicle with a manual gearbox?

[fredonline@mastodon.social]

@hayesstw The only time I've driven an automatic is rental cars on vacations. I've never owned an automatic in all my many years of driving.

[grahamdowns@mastodon.africa]

@hayesstw No. But I can't drive at all due to my visual disability. So perhaps I shouldn't have voted, because now I think of it, you probably intended it for people who can drive in general.

Maybe delete and re-do the poll with an "I can't drive at all" option?

[hayesstw@c.im]

@GrahamDowns

I thought of that, and decided that it didn't matter too much.

It was really sparked off by all those "Have you ever...." lists followed by things like "Used a rotary dial phone?" "Played a CD" and the like. So I just wanted to see how rare the "can" people were.

[grahamdowns@mastodon.africa]

@hayesstw Fair enough

[tecci@social.tchncs.de]

@hayesstw even with non synced gearbox

[kj6evv@mastodon.hams.social]

@hayesstw mastodon users might be a bit of a sampling problem.

[scottrochester@mastodon.social]

@hayesstw In the UK about 95% of us have manuals

[arisummerland@beige.party]

@hayesstw Yes and I own two...

[ngorongoro@literatur.social]

@hayesstw
I'm German. Guess …

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@hayesstw

I prefer to, but when we bought our new Mazda 3 we would have had to have bought a more expensive model to get the full manual transmission but we got the Mazda 3 Sport with a clutchless manual mode.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@hayesstw /me laughs in European

[isotope239@mastodon.online]

@scottrochester @hayesstw I drove a manual for years in the US. Now I'm in the process of getting my UK driving license and will go for the "automatic" option for the practical test. I can shift in my sleep with my right hand but my left hand just doesn't have the muscle memory to deal with it.

[doublesandal@mastodon.art]

@hayesstw yes, until the next wall.