---- Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
> Dave,
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> Once upon a time in parts of this country (Canada) if you took your drivers examination (road test) in an automatic, you were only licensed to drive an automatic.  If you tested in a manual, you were licensed to drive both.

Good policy.  But most people make the switch surprisingly easily if they want to.  I have run into middle aged people who stated that they could not drive a manual transmission vehicle, however.  My wife had not driven a standard until we married, but she learned very quickly.  mcneely

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> On 11-Sep-2015, at 21:06, Dave Mcneely wrote:
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> > ---- eve Appleton <appleton_eve@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> >>
> > i never touched an auto transmission until the age of 35 when i came to America. It's my personal opinion, learning to drive stick >should be manditory to getting a license. (That n parallel parking.) Auto is just too easy and convenience corrupts the mind.
> >
> > Though I agree with you, concerning both the stick shift and the parallel parking, since both are going the way of the dodo, our opinions aren't worth much.

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David McNeely