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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Stick VS Auto.
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 01:46:51 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov12.001040.21262@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> <wmPZTB1w164w@cellar.org> <1dn1s8INN6t5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) says:
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- >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.
- >
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- 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...
- DREW
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