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I live in the UK which is primarily manual cars. Trust me that plenty of people race between speed bumps and pointlessly go at max speed to a visible red light
by JetSetWilly 4y ago
I live in the UK which is primarily manual cars. Trust me that plenty of people race between speed bumps and pointlessly go at max speed to a visible red light hardly any distance away. I doubt the gear box is making much difference to whether people want to be selfish and discourteous or not.
- wizofaus 4y agoWow, I just looked it up and 70% of cars in the UK are still manual "stick shift" transmission. Though for new car sales it's slightly below 50%. Compare Australia where at most 25% or so of vehicles currently on the road are manual (*), and barely 3% of new car sales are. Obviously will become irrelevant with EVs. (*) actually I couldn't find an official stat for this. The number of registrations is slightly higher but a fair number are "collector" cars that are very rarely driven, or mostly in very rural areas. I'd actually suggest in the cities where the vast majority of us live, among cars that are driven regularly manual transmission is a good deal rarer, certainly less than 20%.