From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 26/11/2025 12:22 am, Paul wrote:   
   > On Tue, 11/25/2025 2:36 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-10-08 13:16, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>> On 8/10/2025 8:14 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
      
      
   >>>> A relatively recent modification is that there is an specific   
   >>>> license for automated shift cars. But a person with such a   
   >>>> license is forbidden from driving a standard sift/gear car.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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? :-)   
   >   
   > I learned how to drive a standard, while driving a tractor and wagon   
   > train at work.   
      
   Oww! Were you a Wagon Train Boss, Paul?? Wagons HOOOOOOO!! ;-P   
      
   > One of my summer jobs. Most of my work was "lifting stuff", and only   
   > a couple times per shift, did the tractor need to be moved from A to   
   > B.   
   >   
   > It depends on your line of work, as to whether osmosis of stick   
   > shifts will occur. An office worker would only learn to drive a Xerox   
   > machine (of which there are a number of models).   
   >   
   > On some teams, everyone on the team is "trained up", so in an   
   > emergency, the person intended to do the job, if they've been   
   > incapacitated, another team member can at least move the thing if it   
   > needs to be moved.   
   >   
   > Paul --   
   Daniel70   
      
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