Most people not in the US. We just call it 'driving'

Every car has a clutch. Not all of them are manual.

What is this, some kind of poll to get the average age of Lemmy?

Right. Most of you are from the US. Argentinian here, everybody drives manual. I even wanted to buy an automatic last time but my mechanic was like " Don't even look at it. There is none in this city who can fix those. It might be a great value, but if it breaks, its done for"

99% of people in my country.....

My grandfather had a rule for his kids, and my mom passed it down to me.

You can't have a license until you can:

• Check and fill all the vehicle fluids
• Perform an oil change
• Change a tire
• Drive a manual transmission
• Change belts and hoses

I learned on a stick. I even did some learning on my uncle's beetle with a broken clutch (they were reasonably optional on the OG Bug). And I have not been behind of the wheel of one since. Still glad I learned all that stuff.

Oh, these "let's get people to reveal their password reset question" Facebook campaigns again...

Here in Spain it's estimated that automatic transmission is between 30 and 50% of cars. No official numbers have been released.

So most people have learnt with a clutch. Definitely everyone who has had their license for more than 10 years.

Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?

I think a more interesting question would be:

How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?

Common password recovery question..

Still do.

That is still the standard way here. Automatic is something we still leave to those for who a gear is too complicated.

Amazing shitpost.

People really went directly to the manual vs automatic debate without realizing it has nothing to do with that.

Lot of people searching "clutch" right now

Learned it from the beginning. It was my first car. Wanna say it was a late 80s or very early 90s really basic Ford Mustang that my aunt sold to my parents for me to use for like $200 bucks. I loved it, but not even a year later on my way to high school a van flying down the road rear ended me while I was trying to make a left turn waiting for traffic to clear... I haven't had stick shift since.

Here's a pic of around what it looked like so you can see it was a very basic car back then or this model was super basic haha.

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1979 Datsun 210. Eventually sold the thing for five cartons of cigarettes.

Learned with and still using stick.

I think it was a Renault Megane. Hopeless car. Left it outside in the cold one night. Every bit of wiring had shorted and if i turned on the wipers, the lights would flicker and the radio turned on.

Learned to drive on this bad boy:

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Then my first car was this beauty:

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It has hydrologic suspensions, it's cool AF. Got it 10yo and 230000km and drove it until it died into a cloud of smoke 😢 RIP

I don't know if electric vehicles have one but other than them all cars have clutches, whether manual or automatic.

When I was 15 in the 90s, every adult in the family, and adult friends of the family, said "You're 15? Let's go drive for an hour or two!" I'm pretty sure that, legally, a parent was supposed to be with me, but I guess any random adult was close enough.

I just added up 14 different vehicles I "learned on," including an old pickup with "three on the tree", a Corvette, a 280z turbo, a 68 Chevelle, an International Scout. The rest were boring vehicles. If I remember correctly, 9 were manuals.

1982 SAAB 900. No turbo, no sunroof. No frills. Still a fun car to drive. Drove it till the motor gave out just shy of 1,500,000 miles on the ODO

Yep. Still have two stick cars. They’re not dead yet.

Suzuki Samurai FTW

Learned on a 2000s era VW Beetle, and then a Mazda B2500 FW/2WD. Last manual I owned was a 2015 Honda Fit. Now both our vehicles are Automatic AWD.

I did get to drive a little 4cyl manual SEAT on holiday in Madeira which was an adventure. 36% grade roads, hairpin turns -- like 150cc mario kart around there

As someone who learned driving using a manual transmission car, automatic transmission is much better for city driving, I hated having to be careful with the clutch in stop and go city traffic, my left leg would get so sore after a while, plus I've stalled the engine more than once by letting the clutch go too fast.

Driving stick is still the norm here. Learned it in a Suzuki Swift, which did not do honour to its name.

I learned in both because while automatics were the norm, my parents never wanted me stranded in case a manual was my only option. So I learned in an older cute as hell red paint faded it was almost pink Jeep pick up truck with no tailgate.

Looking at photos online, I think it was maybe a 60s era Willie or a Gladiator from the 70s. It was pretty old, but not a classic, when I drove it.

It was a first generation Ford Focus hatchback.

Learnt in a ford mondeo, some early 2000s model.

Still got a manual as my daily driver.

Since the question is 'vehicle': Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.

I learned on an automatic and didn't know stick. Did that stop me from buying an old manual Mustang? Nope. I figured I had some practice with manual shifting in racing games (console), surely it couldn't be that hard. I stalled plenty of times leaving the lot but once I got it going it was fine. It only really took a couple days of dropping clutch and stalling on hills before I had it down.
Edit- Dang pedants

My first car was a '73 VW Super Beetle.