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Should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

Should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

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To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
 
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Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?
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No - they're not as common as they used to be. Why require someone to know old technology for no reason?
 
I put "Not sure" because I think we are rushing to embrace new technology at the expense of maintaining practical knowledge and capabilities.

This means we become dependent on technology we don't understand, and if it fails catastrophically we will be up the proverbial creek without knowing how to use a paddle.

Having said that, I don't think it should be mandatory but rather a highly recommended option.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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what is the purpose of such a silly law?
 
Aunt Spiker said:
No - they're not as common as they used to be. Why require someone to know old technology for no reason?
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true, few people know how to bridle, saddle and ride a horse. I can ride English or western and I suspect 150 years ago most people could too but nowadays, less than one out of 50
 
No. I drive one - actually I've only owned manuals for the past couple of decades - but that's because I enjoy the feeling of being more in control of the car. There's no reason to force people to learn to drive one any more than one should be forced to learn to drive a truck.
 
Why? Just for control over others?
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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No of course not, that's silly.
If you want to have another type of license for that, id be ok with it but it shouldn't be required.
Just going off my own experience we had one stick in my family and it was one of my dads trucks when I was young. After that one friend of my had one and he taught me the basics and i drove that a few times. I would not claim I could drive a stick though because that's been my only experience. And besides those two vehicles its never been an issue.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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No driving itself will probably be obsolete within the next 50 years. So your law will and is becoming more and more pointless every year.
 
It's a good skill. I always prefer a stick - but there are les and less being sold. not mandatory, no.
 
I stole this thread from a different forum (one with younger demographics) and a majority of answers there was that it should be mandatory (or that a separate license should be required to drive manuals). I thought there would be more yes answers here because older users here lived in a time where manuals were actually a thing.

Not the first time I've been wrong I guess.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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The government needs to stay the **** out of my life and leave me alone.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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If you want to drive one, you should have to have learned to do it.
 
David_N said:
I don't believe so, if you are not driving one.
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It's like flying. If you only fly helicopter you need not learn fixed wing. If you want to do fixed wing you had better walk the extra walk.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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Not really. Manual transmission is pretty uncommon these days. I don't own any, and I had a hard time finding one to borrow so Son#1 could learn the basics of clutch-and-shift.


Most people don't really need to know it, so making it mandatory seems totally unwarranted.


If you ever decide you need to, one afternoon with someone experienced and you should be able to handle it adequately enough to learn-by-experience from there. It isn't rocket science.
 
..w...why?

I mean, just learn the equipment you have.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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First let's require every American to find his/her ass with both hands. Meeting that requirement alone would take decades.

Seriously, you overestimate the intelligence of the average American.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
To receive your driver's license, should it be mandatory to know how to drive a manual transmission vehicle?

I'm unsure myself. On one hand, it's not as common and are slowly become less popular but on the other hand, that doesn't mean you or anybody else will never have to drive one.
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No. They are becoming more and more obsolete year by year.
 
I can drive stick and I say we should not make it a mandatory skill.
 
Why? I haven't driven a manual transmission vehicle in more than 30 years. I can do it, I have no need to do it.
 
Robbie Loucks said:
I stole this thread from a different forum (one with younger demographics) and a majority of answers there was that it should be mandatory (or that a separate license should be required to drive manuals). I thought there would be more yes answers here because older users here lived in a time where manuals were actually a thing.

Not the first time I've been wrong I guess.
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Since it's not as common - most people will never own one. What are people supposed to do - go out a rent one just to teach how to drive it? Silly.
 
I hope not, I would be forced to learn. Probably from my wife although its been quite a few years since she last drove that manual Plymouth Horizon. Now she complains about not having remote start when she has to drive my car. LOL!
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Since it's not as common - most people will never own one. What are people supposed to do - go out a rent one just to teach how to drive it? Silly.
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Even tractor-trailers, the big 18wheel rigs, are starting to go to automatic transmission in some cases. I think a couple of big hauling companies have switched their whole fleet over already.
 
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