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I could picture someone in between with manual transmission skills who is used to an automatic getting into trouble. Due to lack of experience they could be fin

I could picture someone in between with manual transmission skills who is used to an automatic getting into trouble. Due to lack of experience they could be fine under avaerage, non-stressful conditions. But if they need to make a quick evasive maneuver, and forget that they have a manual transmission or don’t know what gear to go into, they could end up stalling the car or revving in neutral when they meant to move out-of-the-way quickly.

brokenmachine 8y ago
I've driven manual vehicles for ~15 years now, and even I'm not sure I wouldn't forget to hit the clutch and stall if I had to brake really hard during a quick evasive maneuver. I have had one incident where I had to swerve onto the wrong side of the road to dodge a car that suddenly pulled into my lane from a line of parked cars (with no indicator and no warning). I was lucky there was no oncoming traffic because there was no way I could have stopped without hitting the car that pulled out. I didn't stall then but I also didn't have to come to a complete stop, like if a kid had jumped onto the road and I had nowhere to go and had to slam the brakes completely on. I don't think stalling is really a major safety issue though. About the only example I can think of where you'd really have to accelerate to be safe is when your car is stalled on railway tracks, and in that case you'd be unlikely to have had to do some maneuver that landed you there. 99.99% of the time slowing down is safer than accelerating.