Learn to Drive in a Manual..... Should it be Mandatory ?

[Rodp]

Originally Posted by Adamz Ghia

If you don't know what gear your car is in at any given time auto or manual, you're not concentrating hard enough or you don't know your car well enough.

With current gearbox technology?

If I put you in the passenger seat of my car, turned the radio up to a reasonable level, I bet you wouldn't know what gear it was in. It flies through 6 gears and the only way you would know it had changed gears would be by listening to the exhaust note.

In an auto, you shouldn't need to concentrate and be aware of what gear you are in as it's inconsequential.