Why Manual Transmission Cars ROCK BALLS

Don't give me that look or say, "WHY?!?!?!?!!ONE ELEVEN".

Happy stick for the superior mind, death stick for lesser humans.

Imma tell you. I never once shied away from driving manual cars. I was in fact excited over them. For me, the ability to drive a manual transmission car is absolutely a must-have skill. You'd never know when you'd be needed to drive a truck. Or something that isn't automated. 

When I started enrolling into driving school, I insisted on learning on the manual cars when my school offered packages for auto cars. For me, having a licence for only auto cars is a loss of skill. 

Here's the breakdown:

For someone's who is not a morning person, driving an Auto car would mean stagnancy in brain activity. Because you only have essentially two gears to maneuver with: N while stationary and D for driving and finally P once you reach your destination. R for when you need to back the fuck up, DUH.

With Manuals on the other hand, you need to be constantly alert. Like, you need to gauge whether you want to go on Speed 1 or 2 when the traffic jam is crawling, and Speed 3 or 4 when the highway is fairly spaced out with cars and if the traffic is at a standstill, you can simply free up your gear and pull on the handbreak. And you need to mentally memorize the positions of each function on the gearbox. You don't actually see the gearbox while you're changing gears, you sort of use your mind's eye when you do this and it asks you to STILL concentrate on all your vital angles and peripherals. 

See? For a morning person, a manual car is a must-have to give yourself that little jolt to being awake because you cannot afford to be a caffeine-deficit zombie as you'd be with an Auto. I found, over the months of driving to and from work that my mind is constantly alert and sort of...exercised? Like, there's serious brainpower involved in driving a manual car. For those of us who's just a slut for challenge, I DARE YOU. It is also easier to control the speed of your car in a Manual. The speed indicators 1-2-3-4-5 (some cars have up to 6 and I know one model of an Audi car has up to 7), controls how fast you need your bad boy to be. 

WHAT ARE THOOOSEEEE????

Driving a Manual car is seriously a lot of fun, depending on your personality. I agree, during traffic jam, driving a manual car is an absolute pain in the butt. But look at the positive, and think, well; toned calves! 

Say suppose you're driving on the highway and you want to change channels on the radio, if you had been driving on 4 or 5, you can change to 3 so that you get to slow down just a teensy bit to give yourself that quick timeframe to change channels. Of course not recommended on a busy road, use common sense and gauge the distance and sparcity of cars on the road. Had you remained on gear 4 or 5 on the highway, there is an increased risk that you'd underestimate actually how fast the car is going because you're at your maximum speed. You'd keep pressing the accelerator unknowingly. By changing gears to a slower level, you'd never exceed the speed limit of your gear (gear three gives you a maximum of 60 - 80mph while 4-5 gives you above 90mph). The "slow motion" in a dire situation gives you a leverage to quickly sort things out. 

The pros of an Auto car far exceeds a Manual, this I acknowledge but you cannot deny that driving a Manual is just so. much. FUN.