How difficult is it to learn to drive a car with manual transmission?
How to drive a manual transmission car By YoJDawg Something everyone with a license should know…. If you are one of the people who have been driving an automatic car since they got their license then chances are that you haven’t learned how to drive a manual transmission car, or “stick” as most people say. For some people it’s hard to understand how much gas to give it, how much to let off the clutch, how to get going, ect ect. I’ll give you a few tips on how to drive stick and hopefully you can go out and learn something new. First let’s talk about how it basically works. When you push in the clutch, the cluth pulls off the transmission and is sitting there freely with no friction. As you release the clutch it closes down onto the gears in the transmission and starts to go because the gears are set in motion based on what gear you put it in with your hand. So think of it as if you have a record spinning and you put your finger on it slightly the record will slow down unless you turn
Here in Italy everybody uses a manual shift. It is more difficult because you have to learn to coordinate the two foots (accelerator and friction) and the hand. It takes a certain number of hours of practice to use it, but it is not so difficult. For us, the American cars with automatic shift are as easy to guide as toy cars.
