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And where are you from? And how old? Not "do you" but just if you know how.

I'm in the US, mid 30s and can (and do) drive a manual transmission.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Southern Europe, 34. I only know how to drive with manual transmission (I tried an automatic city car once, and I literally couldn't exit the parking spot). I'm too used to control the car with the clutch. I should learn though, because I use car sharing services, and they are progressively replacing their cars with automatic transmission ones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is fascinating to me, I'm curious what happened as to why you couldn't leave a parking spot. Were you trying to back out or pull forward out of the spot?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that the problem was that I was using the left foot too much, because I'm too used to use the clutch a lot for doing these maneuvers. A friend of mine told me that the first thing to learn is that the left foot should rest. Anyhow, I think with some patience I could have done it, but I didn't feel safe to drive in the traffic like that for the first time.