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With a manual you use the gear appropriate for the speed. You don't go driving across a parking lot in 4th the way you see idiots flying through in Drive, if not Overdrive. The people today drive like the peddle is an on/off switch. Hit the peddle and go hard till you run up on something slower. It's mindless and compulsive behavior. The person in a manual vehicle has to think about what gear they are in or they aren't driving. Each shift is a decision the driver makes, not the car. The world would be a better and safer place to drive and be a pedestrian if there were no automatics. Might not have ever been so many cars and drivers on the road if automatics never came along. The driving world opened up to all with the advent of the automatic transmission. There have always been those who can not drive a manual, even back when that's all there was.