>Learning to drive stick is still a useful skill if you want to operate heavy trucks or ride motorcycles, neither of which tend to have an automatic transmissio

>Learning to drive stick is still a useful skill if you want to operate heavy trucks or ride motorcycles, neither of which tend to have an automatic transmission. Learning how to shift gears is a small ammount of learning needed to drive those kinds of vehicles so once you decide to learn them you can just learn how to switch gears. I learned how to drive 600 motorcycle before I ever drove a car, took me 1 hour to figure out gear shifting (well start/stop/second gear at least), learned uphill starts the next day. After 3-4 hours of driving I stopped stalling the bike. Took me 20-40 hours to get good balance and double that to become comfortable enough in traffic.