From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 10/7/2025 9:26 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   > If fully autonomous cars are available, I can see *many* people   
   > forgoing learning to drive by hand, just as few Americans   
   > learn to use a manual transmission.   
      
   One of my few objections to electric cars (as I understand, the motors   
   in EVs drive the wheels directly, with no need for a drive train or   
   transmission).  I learned to drive, at both my and my father's   
   insistence, with a manual transmission, and have been driving one for   
   most* of my life since.   
      
   * I've owned one automatic, and all IC rentals are automatic.   
      
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