First driving experience after getting the license and personal feeling
Nowadays, I think majority of the countries have set their legal age for getting driving license at the age of 18. In my country, Malaysia, which is located in Asia, we do have the same regulation. Therefore, I was going to take a driving test just a few days after my birthday. After I got my license, I drove car to anyway I want. It was such a thrilling experience. Although I have got a few horns from other drivers, I am still enjoying driving. However, in my country, there is an exotic phenomenon. A lot of people took their driving test with manual transmission but after they got their license, most of them never go to drive any vehicles with manual transmission. In stead, they would choose to drive vehicles with automatic transmission. In my opinion, there are more and more parents encourage their children to drive automatic transmission car instead of car with manual transmission. This is because many of them think that the automatic transmission is more convenient than the manual transmission as they do not need to control the clutch during traffic jam and climbing uphill. Based on my experience, personally I think majority of the Asia countries have this situation. Hence, I wonder the western world will prefer automatic transmission to manual transmission or vice versa?
Thank you for any comments and corrections.
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It is very interesting to hear that. In my country although manual transmission cars are much cheaper, the market response from people is not promising, maybe due to the fact that there are not many car manufacturers produce manual models.
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In France, we use almost exclusivly manual transmission because it's the common norm. But for some drivers as me, it's reassuring because you can use the gear for an urgent brake or accelerate more stronger when we need to double a car and someone is behind us and sticking our rear vehicle. It's a tool that can be very useful.
Conversely, I must confess that the automatic transmission is very comfortable having used it too in the East. We don't feel the envy to push a car to its boundaries, but we rely completely on the capacity decided by the engine. In my opinion, both are good and the choice depends really on the temper of the driver. Cars in the Eastern world are maybe more recent for many countries.
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