I can’t find the link, but this was an amusing news story from a couple of years back. A woman driving (IIRC) a Mustang was car-jacked. The 'jackers didn’t make it more than a couple of blocks because her car was a manual and they couldn’t drive it. So they abandoned it and ran away; the woman got back in her car and called the cops.
If I could own only manual transmission cars, I would. I vastly prefer driving a stick. A couple of years ago the alternator in my truck went out. I was in a strip mall parking lot and asked a couple of young guys to push-start my dead truck. They had no clue such a thing was possible.
This. Too much gas is better than too much clutch. Slipping is conducive to learning (in the short term).
I learned to drive a standard before I owned one. The dealer was shocked that I had never driven one before and was working off of “Knowing the theory, how hard could it be…?”
Do NOT for any reason attempt to teach someone how to drive in an empty church parking lot at 4 pm on a Sunday. Because, when the evening service draws close, it becomes anarchy.
(Yes, my ex thought that’d be a good place for me to learn. He didn’t think his cunning plan all the way through. I still can’t drive a stick.)
