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- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Stick VS Auto.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.200004.13202@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:00:04 GMT
- References: <wmPZTB1w164w@cellar.org> <1dn1s8INN6t5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1dv1ebINNmo4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
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- In article <1dv1ebINNmo4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) says:
- >
- >>In article <1dn1s8INN6t5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>WRONG!!...that is what drivers ed is for..this is why they should be taught
- >>>in sticks...after you learn to do it all in a stick..the autos are a piece
- >> ^^^^^^
- >>Perhaps learning in cars would be a good idea :-)
- >>
- >>>of cake!...going auto to stick is quite a traumatizing experience..much more
- >>>so than going stick to auto.
- >>
- >>How much more traumatic do you think it is to learn _from scratch_ using
- >>a manual gearbox. Many of us did just that and can vaguely remember,
- >>you however, didn't.
- >>
- >
- >actually..it's a debate which i learned first..i learned to shift a stick
- >long before i ever touched an auto..i shifted for my mother..yeah..from
- >the right seat(that's the passanger seat for ye ol' non USeans readin'!)
- >.but the first car i ever "drove"(as in..manuvered on a public road) was
- >indeed an auto...but..i already knew the idosychrasis(sp) of the manual
- >that i drove after i'd shifted it for a couple years...even thogh i was
- >in the wrong seat..:-) you decide which i learned to drive in...i don't
- >care which you want to claim i learned in..it is still easier to make
- >the manual-auto conversion than vice versa...
-
- You stated quite clearly in an earlier post that _you_ were FORCED (your
- emphasis) to learn to drive in an auto. Now you say that you knew all about
- driving manuals 'coz you shifted for your mother. Try at least to be
- internally consistent in your vacuous arguments.
-
- Also understanding the mechanics of moving a lever on cue (push the lever
- now honey if you really must) doesn't mean you had the faintest clue about
- the coordination required to move those pedals at the same time.
-
- Derek
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- Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu New Zealand --
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