I think driving an automatic might help but it's by no means necessary. I don't know what the numbers are, but around Paris, where most cars are manual, there

I think driving an automatic might help but it's by no means necessary. I don't know what the numbers are, but around Paris, where most cars are manual, there are a lot of people texting on their phones (I'll see at least several of them on my 5 km commute in the city traffic).