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submitted 1 year ago by raptir@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

And where are you from? And how old? Not "do you" but just if you know how.

I'm in the US, mid 30s and can (and do) drive a manual transmission.

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[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

In Europe you basically have to be handicapped to not learn to drive manual.

That's changing though, I see many people taking their driving lessons in EVs, which in turn means they'll only be able to drive automatics. I guess that won't bother them too much as they'll probably only want to drive EVs anyway, or else they would've chosen to take their lessons in a regular manual like most people

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

or else they would’ve chosen to take their lessons in a regular manual like most people

More likely that it's often their parents' car, I suspect. Depending on where you live, practising in your own car can save thousands in driving school fees.

But for the non-Europeans reading, the thing is that with the manual license you get to choose. You can drive both. Automatic license, you can never drive a manual.

Rental companies are almost certain to replace their cars with EVs sooner rather than later. But if you want to rent a bigger van, those'll likely be ICE for a while longer. A van like that can easily do hundreds of thousands of kms. That's a lot for a van that does the occasional move.

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