Tweaking the throttle on approach

Hi,

In article .com,
wrote:
Which makes sense... I mean heck, sometimes I think that automobile
drivers should be certified for manual transmissions. I see way too
many drivers who are very scary to be behind, when starting on hills
with their new 5-speed ;-)

In the UK, they are. You can either take your driving test in a manual or an
automatic. If you take it in a manual, you can drive either. If you take it
in an automatic, you can only drive automatics.

Andy

In the UK, they are. You can either take your driving test in a manual or an
automatic. If you take it in a manual, you can drive either. If you take it
in an automatic, you can only drive automatics.

In the US it's the reverse. If you take it (or took it when I did,
mumble years ago) in a manual, that's all you could drive. If you took
it in an automatic, you could drive both. Go figure.

Jose
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Hi,


In article ,
wrote:
In the US it's the reverse. If you take it (or took it when I did,
mumble years ago) in a manual, that's all you could drive. If you took
it in an automatic, you could drive both. Go figure.

???

So they reckon it's harder to drive an auto than a manual?

The mind boggles

Andy

So they reckon it's harder to drive an auto than a manual?

I reckon it has to do with using the otherwise occupied foot for the
brakes. But that's just a guess.

Jose
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Andy Hawkins writes:

So they reckon it's harder to drive an auto than a manual?

A car with an automatic transmission is perhaps considered "complex."

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Jose wrote:
In the UK, they are. You can either take your driving test in a
manual or an automatic. If you take it in a manual, you can drive
either. If you take it in an automatic, you can only drive
automatics.

In the US it's the reverse. If you take it (or took it when I did,
mumble years ago) in a manual, that's all you could drive. If you
took it in an automatic, you could drive both. Go figure.


The US is a very big place with several different state laws that change
from time to time. Unless you change the US to some more specific location
and maybe even specific date you are just plain wrong.

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

The US is a very big place with several different state laws that change
from time to time. Unless you change the US to some more specific location
and maybe even specific date you are just plain wrong.

Correction: Your rightness or wrongness is indeterminate.

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Jose wrote:
In the UK, they are. You can either take your driving test in a
manual or an automatic. If you take it in a manual, you can drive
either. If you take it in an automatic, you can only drive
automatics.

In the US it's the reverse. If you take it (or took it when I did,
mumble years ago) in a manual, that's all you could drive. If you
took it in an automatic, you could drive both. Go figure.

Huh? That makes absolutely ZERO sense. (okay, it was gub'mint)