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Platypus Sep 25, 2024

Is driving a car this awful all the time?

Is driving a car this awful all the time? - Lemmings.world

I’m doing the driving lessons and I dread them every time. I don’t feel like I’m improving much and it’s just stressful. I feel like giving up. I’m only going because I passed the theory exam with that school, and i would had to spend more money (that I don’t have) if I start again. Btw I now understand the hate towards manual cars. Automatic should be the only option, one less distraction on the road, especially when you’re new on these things (unfortunately you must learn manual where I live).

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TeckFire Sep 26, 2024

As someone who drives an automatic, I so wish I could have a manual. I much prefer driving them.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad I was able to drive an automatic and get experience first, but once you start really driving a car, you realize how much an automatic limits you. Things like engine braking, coasting, and honestly just staying in one consistent gear when you’re trying to maintain good speed control are much harder, if not next to impossible depending on the automatic.

Learning to drive is going to take a lot of time though, and the fact that everyone just does it and takes it for granted I think really messes with you. Speaking from experience, most people don’t even learn to drive that well, no matter how much they drive. I see people constantly driving off the lines, poor speed control, braking distance, etc. just blows my mind that where I live (USA) there’s next to no requirements to drive.

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Platypus Sep 26, 2024

I wish it was like that here, next to no requirements. You don’t even need turning lights that much there right?

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TeckFire

Yeah, the USA has huge issues with people straight ignoring road laws… no turn signals, no zipper merging, no yielding properly in roundabouts, “no cop, no stop” at stop signs…. I mean just insane.

Like I said before, I think it’s much easier to learn to drive in an automatic, and move to a manual when you’re better at it, you know got the basics down. Like using a manual if you’ve exceeded the limits of an automatic, as I described above.

I do think driving can be a lot of fun though, even more so in a manual, but that only comes when you have the experience for it to be second nature to you.