Automatic or Manual?

I never learned to drive manually. I am a very slow learned when it comes to cars. i don't have enough confidence in my skills. So it took me almost a year to master driving. In defense of myself, my mom wouldn't allow me to drive most of the time so I hardly practiced. The more I drove, the better I got and so now I am very confident in my skills. :)

I learned to drive on a stick shift. My dad used to say that no one should receive a license without knowing how to drive one, so he was going to insist I take my test driving one. When the day came to take my test, he threw me the keys to my mom's automatic. I now actually prefer to drive a stick.

I have never been able to drive because of my vision. My mother and my husband always prefered standard (manual) shifts, and my Dad always drove an automatic.

automatic of course because i dont feel like frog hopping down the road

Manual or Automatic, Doesn't matter for me, As long as I have a transpo ^_~ I'm not speed addict so can't say that I hate automatic because of it's acceleration. In fact, I'm scared of over speeding ^_~ lolz.

When I am learning driving, I am using a manual;so I always think that I will not a good driver if I am not able to deal with stick shift;it is just cool,I can control the car freely with it.Meanwhle, the automatic is more expensive than the manual at the same level.So, my choice will be the manual car,but if I can bear the price of a automatic car, I will buy one,for I can share the car with my girl;the stick shift is not fit for her.

Nowadays automatic cars are being sold at very high rates.Because of recession and inflation my choice will be manual cars.Actually i like automatic cars.There's no need to change gears.Also i heard it uses a lot of petrol.Its very good to drive on highways as the car will speed on empty roads and we don't need to apply the brakes often.

hello smooch that is great that you have not wrecked your car in learning how to drive. lol you don't want to do that. lol but i would prefer to drive a vehicle that has an automatic transmission in it versus a vehicle that has a stick shift in it although, i do know how to drive both kinds of a vehicle. i took driving class years ago when that i was in high school and it really didn't help me much either. experience in driving is the best way for one to learn how to drive instead of sitting in class, listening to a teacher about driving a vehicle. we did get to go out on the high school's back parking lot to drive a little bit, stopping and going, and then our driving instructor took me out on the road maybe twice during my classes, wasn't very many times, might have been just one time. but it is great to be able to drive a car or any other kind of a vehicle because you never know when that you will have to jump in the car and go somewhere. take care and have a beautiful evening.

I responded to a similar discussion before and my answer's the same. Manual. More control on the throttle. Have a good one.

Skilled drivers, and people who welcome challenges most probably would chose manual. New learners, and people of mild personality, have a liking for the automatic. For me, the choice is automatic. I worked in jvs with a German co and later a US co, and i have the feeling that those from Germany like to drive cars with manual and most from US are contented with auto. I guess the habit has been developed by time with the road conditions and cultural influence, as well.

of coursed i will choose automatic

for me i prefer automatic as it easy to drive. i am just a newly liscense driver i did learn how to drive on an automatic car, i think its a lot convenient. but i do also want to learn manual. but now i am driving an automatic car. happy mylotting.

i love to drive automatic transmission cars...but the real feel of driving a car comes only when the gear lever is shifted manually...especially from 4-5 when cruising at a great speed ...its a very spl feeling

I love my stick. I wouldn't drive anything else.

In the UK, automatic is something of a luxury and stick shift is the norm. I learnt to drive in about one lesson flat - in rush hour traffic on Putney Bridge! First my instructor took me to the back streets of Fulham (which is a grid ... something like American back streets but smaller). There we learnt about brakes, gas, clutch and shift in half an hour. The final half hour was stop/start in a queue of traffic ... and choosing the right lane to be in for where you wanted to go. I think that, in all, I had a dozen lessons (or ten before the first test, which I failed because the examiner took me to a particularly nasty place to do my three-point turn. I passed on the second attempt, however, and have been driving without mishap for 50 years! I don't think it's at all necessary to total your car in order to 'learn how to drive'! Only silly gooses learn to drive that way! I have always preferred a manual shift over an automatic. I like to be in control of the machinery and to know my engine speed and road speed at all times. Engines are like women. Take things too slowly and you end up stalling or coking up the relationship; take things too fast and you just burn out or blow a gasket (or use too much gas, which is expensive). I make love to my car (but can readily curse it if it lets me down) and I don't often let it be driven by other men ... or women (who know NOTHING about how female an engine is!)

I'm the exact opposite - I never learned how to drive an automatic. And at 52, I don't think I ever will. But with me, I went 11 years without any accidents. Then, itr seemed like I had a few of them, and they were all my fault except one. Now, I haven't had any in over ten years.

I'm for the automatic myself, I know how to drive a stick but I hate doing it so I am going to drive an automatic until the day comes that they take my license away.

I learned how to drive both, for the simple reason that my parents have both. My dad has an automatic, and my mom drives a manual. But to be perfectly honest, I much prefer driving an automatic. I find that not having the stick shift helps concentrate on what's going on around me.

I drive an automatic because I was never taught how to drive a standard. My grandmother taught me when I was 15. I was so scared at first, but now I love the drive. I have never been in a wreck as a driver, thank goodness. Its one of my fears though. I definitely prefer the automatic, even if I learned the manual, because it doesn't take as much concentration to drive and I can watch the other vehicles around me and get out of the way if they aren't paying attention!