Currently, manual cars still account for 70 per cent of the 31.7 million cars on UK's roads.
If you want to make it easier to learn to drive, break the British fetish for manual.
If you want to make it easier to learn to drive, break the British fetish for manual.
It takes far longer to learn how to navigate traffic situations and maneuvers than to learn how to change gear. Driving standards in the UK are high and a single error when changing lanes or negotiating a junction can result in a test failure.
If it takes 10 hours of road driving to get comfortable and 2 hours to get comfortable with stick, you could do them both at the same time.
As I know, this rule also works in some other countries, and slowly distributes. I think it's lobbied by insurance companies, because they pay lot of compensations for scratches, happen on parking, when people pass test in an automatic and then have difficulties in slow speed evolution's in manual.