Also, let’s address the fact that if millennials don’t know how to drive stick, it’s because their parents (boomers or early xers) didn’t teach them!!
How do you learn if you don’t have exposure?
Um, well, you can’t learn to drive a vehicle you don’t have access to.
Also, driving is not something you take lightly. It needs to be taught by a skilled driver, not by trial and error after reading about or watching a video. When you make a mistake driving people can be hurt or killed.
Did you learn to drive without being taught?
I was "taught" how to drive by a stupid state run online course meant for a fucking 7 year old, at best. Then... I just drove. I spent many hours in a car before being behind a wheel... that shit wasn't lost on me. I knew what the fuck I was doing, I just needed a card to keep me out of trouble while I did what I knew I was doing.
I mean, that argument even works if you live in NYC and your family doesn't own a car; you take a taxi sometimes, right?
My second car was a stick shift that I tried out in the seller's driveway and drove home by myself that same day. I stalled it a few times at red lights and stops, but by the next day I had no problems. It's not hard to figure out, it just takes a few minutes of practice to know how slowly to release the clutch as you step on the gas.
There's no reason why it shouldn't be easy for everyone since there's nothing complicated about it. I had no special talent for it, I just gave it a shot.
Ah, finding something very easy, that other people find at least a little challenging is exactly what it means to have a talent for it.
I’m not trying to say that driving a manual is so unreachably difficult, I’m just saying you can’t learn it if you’re never exposed.
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· 4 years ago
Not everyone wants to drive something they don't know how out and about in town and endangering people Karen or Boomer. What ever you are charror
I'd go with manual if I owned a car I liked to zoom zoom with... but for now I'm just gonna be cruisin' in my camry boat and not worry about that. Ever since they changed the liquor laws in my county (about 4 months ago), I haven't driven further than 5 miles from my house. The only time I need to get on the highway is when I need to get to the movie theater, and I make sure I'm not the one driving when I go to the movies. There's a theater closer, but the owners refuse to invest in upgrading it and insist on providing a niche market for indian films, which constantly take up half their screens... that place was the spot until they bought it and ran it into the ground (that has nothing to do with the bollywood movies, just maintenance). I mean, I get it, that niche market works, as this area as an abnormally large population of transplants from India.
Strange, I'm a millennial an yet myself and almost everyone of my friends in college could drive a stick. Of the few who couldn't they were mostly female but not exclusively. It was mainly because their parents either didn't drive a stick or didn't know how themselves and so couldn't teach their kids how. Gross generalizations like this are really annoying when it's not me making them.
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· 4 years ago
I've never needed to drive stick like I didn't really need to drive in the army tbh
Also:
Ok Boomer
I would have bought a Kia stinger, except it's automatic only
How do you learn if you don’t have exposure?
Also, driving is not something you take lightly. It needs to be taught by a skilled driver, not by trial and error after reading about or watching a video. When you make a mistake driving people can be hurt or killed.
Did you learn to drive without being taught?
I mean, that argument even works if you live in NYC and your family doesn't own a car; you take a taxi sometimes, right?
I’m not trying to say that driving a manual is so unreachably difficult, I’m just saying you can’t learn it if you’re never exposed.
Also:
Ok Boomer