From: jim@geordieland.com   
      
   On 25/11/2025 10:56, 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. ;-)   
      
   I have been driving for 50 years with a manual gearbox.   
   I have recently moved to an automatic, and it's great, however, if I had   
   started on automatic, there is no way I could have moved to manual   
   without lessons, professional or otherwise and, honestly, a test.   
   --   
   Jim the Geordie   
      
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