From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-25 11:56, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 25/11/2025 6:36 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-10-08 13:16, Daniel70 wrote:   
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   >>> Similarly, here in Victoria, if you take your TEST in an Automatic car,   
   >>> you are licenced to drive an Automatic car .... at least initially.   
   >>>   
   >>> Our licences are for Ten years. I think, at the end of that ten years,   
   >>> you are deemed to be competent to drive either a Manual or Automatic   
   >>> car, so can drive either.   
   >>   
   >> They expect you to magically learn? :-)   
   >>   
   > Well, experience HAS to count for something, surely. ;-)   
      
   Sure, but the smooth handling of the gears and clutch is not an   
   automatic skill. And Spain is a very hilly country. Imagine parking on a   
   steep slope.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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