Taking tests in manual vs automatic - thoughts from a parent.
A thread. 1/6 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53933653

Just got back in from a session with my youngest teaching her to drive.
We are all EVs in the family.
My eldest got an automatic Hyundai i10 the minute she passed her manual test (she wanted to do manual), but now uses our Leaf most of the time (‘free’ electricity from home!) 2/6

Youngest will inherit the automatic i10 when she passes, but we’ve had to buy a manual 108 for her to learn in.
Why?
She sees how pointless it is with us all driving autos, however she wants to be a vet and in her work experience all of the vet vans have been manual. 3/6

They probably still will be in 6 years when she qualifies.

It’s only when teaching someone in a manual that you realise how much of ‘learning to drive’ is actually learning how to operate a manual gearbox!!! 4/6

Automatics are much safer in this regard as there is never confusion about being in the wrong gear, rolling back on hill starts etc.

The sooner she passes and gets into an automatic, the better.
Manual gearboxes really are terrible and pointless when looked at objectively. 5/6

(Oh and the ‘what about renting a car?’ thing is rubbish in my experience. Never had a problem renting automatic cars anywhere in the world on business and pleasure for many, many years) 6/6.