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Old 12-15-2010, 03:23 PM   #77 (permalink)
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I'm not worried about your personal choices or really concerned with proving that you can or can't drive. I just object to the claim that "automatic transmissions [are] a 'must'" for city driving and manuals are for rural driving.

Oddly, city dwellers in Europe don't seem to have trouble with manuals...
In Los Angeles we have two of the top-10 (or top-5) freeway congestion intersections in the country. One is the 10/405 interchange, and the other is the 101/405 interchange. To get from one to the other you have to go through the "bottleneck", aka the 405 overpass :

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It makes for a disastrous commute. It's not steep, so there's no worry about driving manual. I don't take it because of the time lost.

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