Do you know how to drive a standard shift vehicle or do you drive an automatic?

[Dynamite2013]

I have an automatic car but I have driven a standard shift car in the past. In fact I have also driven a semi-truck which I had pleasure in doing. Automatics are easier but I think in cases when you are stuck in the mud or on ice the standard shift will get you out of the situation faster.

[Nancy5]

I have automatic drive, but I learned many years ago on a standard 3 on the column stick. My boyfriend later had a red Mustang with 4 on the floor, which he taught me how to drive that.

[pkrahmer]

Growing up I would shift gears as my parents drove the car. But given my disability I drive an automatic.

[rghvac69]

My pickup truck has a stick-shift.

[devideddi]

I can drive both.

[bretay]

i can drive both..both my vehicles are automatic..but i learned to drive in a straight drive vehicle..

[jenniferhoder]

I never learned how to drive a stick shift... Wish I would have learned. Too hard to learn now that I am old! lol

[jkhanson]

I learned how to drive using the standard shift vehicles.  I prefer automatic drive!

It is one of the things a person gets used to.  It isn't hard.

[bremer51]

I like a nice stick. And my first three cars had a manual shift.  Now I have a truck with automatic.  By the time I heft myself in the truck, I'm too tired to deal with a stick shift.

[InfuseMe1]

Yep, can do do both!   

[Penwoir]

I learnt to drive a stick shift in the United Kingdom. In the UK if you pass your test in an automatic vehicle you are then only licensed for automatics. If you pass your test using a stick shift, you are licensed for both. I was amazed when I met my husband and he told me he passed his test in an automatic and is licensed to drive both, so when I took my test in the US, I took it in an automatic. I love the fact that it is almost impossible to stall an automatic and that waiting at a junction which is on a slight hill, you don't slip backwards!

[catchow]

I learned on a stick shift, while I prefer that, I can no longer drive them due to arthritis in both knees, so drive an automatic now

[bowrunner]

I have a stick shift on my car but automatic on my SUV.  I'm getting to the point that I would prefer automatic.

[nguzman1]

I drive an automatic but I always wanted to drive a standard.

[jmccaskill]

Learned to drive using manual transmissions, automatics were not all that common then! Still prefer manual over automatic but these just can't be found in the cars I buy, instead they have all gone to the 'paddle type' auto/selective type transmissions. I agree that having a manual gives the driver a LOT more capability and flexibility in controlling their vehicle.