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I don't follow... Posted by PGAero [Email]  (#1143) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from PGAero) on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:48:13
In Reply to: Automatics are safer in accidents, Caarma  [Profile/Gallery]
, Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:44:32
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A transport truck company is going to switch to automatics because "Automatic transmissions are the No. 1 safety device at Schneider National" and "the trucks are safer." I don't see any correlation being drawn to accident safety... and I don't see how transport truck fleets would be representative of passenger cars. Maybe I'm missing something?
After driving manual transmissions (not in carrier trucks, but in passenger cars and personal pick-ups) for about 12 years, I've only once not put the clutch in upon stopping abruptly... That one time, however, was the first or second time I had driven a stick. I attribute that to being a new driver (still only had my permit) and not to the stick (There was no accident, just me being given a wake-up call). A skilled driver will be able to appropriately handle the car they are driving, regardless of the transmission. I think sticks might prove dangerous in the wrong hands, but that is an issue that takes me all the way back to what I see as an insufficient drivers' training/instruction system in the US. It is not, and I don't think it should be implied to be, a fault of manual transmissions.
**TANGENT** Not directed at your comment Atul... but just me pulling the soapbox out of storage for a minute! Should the person who took their driver's test in (and who's never driven anything else than) an automatic VW Golf be allowed, foe example, to drive a manually-shifted 1988 Ford F-350 with a ski boat in tow? (I don't think that is safe). Well, the great state of _________ here in the US issues one license allowing them to do just that. So, does that make the manual transmission unsafe... or is it the driver?
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