[Idyllchat] Stick vs. automatic shifts

[Jay Cloidt]

My problem driving in Scotland was not shifting with my left hand or
remembering to stay on the left hand side
of the road. It was perspective and judging where the car actually is.

When you drive a right-drive car, you sit on the right with the rest of the
car to your left. Now make a left hand turn.
You have to remember that you have all that car on your left so that you
don't take the turn too tight. Leaving the
rental car lot and exiting Edinburgh airport, you have to go through 3
roundabouts before you get into traffic. I hit the
curb exiting all 3 because I turned to the left too tightly. Fortunately for
me, this made me much more careful and aware
of where the car really was before I had to make a left in the city itself
where I would have hit a parked car.

  - Jay

On Jan 29, 2008 2:42 PM, <TravLnNutt at aol.com> wrote:

>   Suzanne,
> The gearshift in the car we had was on the floor. I actually got to like
> roundabouts. Just couldn't relax or I'd drift back to the "right" side of
> the road.
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> Louise
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> In a message dated 1/29/2008 11:28:30 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> rsgrahamog at yahoo.com writes:
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> I don't know how to reply to all on Idlechat, but i couldn't resist adding
> the following re: challenges in the UK.  How many of you have found the
> windshield (sorry, windscreen) wipers going furiously, when actually you
> were trying to shift gears?  Suzanne
>
> *TravLnNutt at aol.com* wrote:
>
>  Vance,
>
> There is no requirement to use a manual transmission in California.
> Although I have driven (and prefer) manual for most of my life, I took the
> test for my first license on a friend's automatic. Couldn't parallel park on
> a hill with a stick shift. Thank goodness I don't have to very often.
>
> I had several challenges when driving in England. Stick on my left,
> driving on the left, parallel parking, on a hill, on a very narrow two way
> street only wide enough for one car. I think I drove around the block and
> found a flat parking space.
>
> Louise
> Palomar Mountain, CA
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