Only one EV charger at home?!

No, that you are going down using the same road :-D

Remember: diesel.

For a diesel, that's small.

For a diesel, 0.3cc is small

That's not the other side.

That is small. I spent some of my youth fussing with a 0.82 diesel engine (Cox .049 Babe Bee). Cox did make a .020 (.33cc) Pee Wee but I never had one.

Or you get a little surprise. I-40 gradually climbs to Flagstaff AZ, which is just shy of 7000'. Turn onto I-17 and drops to Camp Verde at 3100' in

if the car is 2000kg 3900' is only ~22MJ, about half a kg of gasoline

Babe bee strictly a glowplug engine, which isn't quite a diesel as it relies on methanol ignited against a hot catalyst of platinum wire The diesels ran on paraffin and ether and castor oil

I had a pee wee and several babe bees. And an AMCO 35 and a PAW 19...and a few others that came my way.

My 1954 Ford Prefect (the last of the 'humpy-backed' style of body) had rod brakes. The brake pads were expanded by the rod pulling tapered wedges. Provided all the linkages and wedges were lubricated and kept free of dirt, for the sort of speed I drove the car (my cruising speed was 42mph!), the braking was excellent.

I drove a 1936 Standard 14 on one occasion and during a 3 point turn I collided with a parked car. This was because all the drum brakes had leading edge shoes, consequently there was next to no braking when reversing.

But as has already been referred to, if you pass your test in a manual, you are also allowed to drive automatics (but not vice versa).

And, unless they have been exaggerating (or lying) about the way they sometimes drive, some of the contributors to certain newsgroups!

I’ve heard rumour that this is going to change. With the push towards EVs getting manual cars to sit one’s test in the future will be more difficult.

After all, we let Americans with auto only licences hire manual cars here don’t we? What could possibly go wrong. ;-)

Tim

Usually one shoe in each of the rear drum brakes was trailing so there would still be some braking in reverse.

All shoes in the front brakes were leading to give the best performance.

kw

Some US states may have auto only licenses but none I've ever lived in. Mine has a motorcycle endorsement but that isn't tiered either. Honda 50 or Hayabusa they're all covered. In fact it's not uncommon for someone to borrow a friend's small bike for the test.

Many hills in your area?

Getting manual cars in general has become much more difficult in the UK. New models in some marques are automatic only for petrol or diesel :(

They probably won't even get out of the parking lot if they have never driven a manual gearbox vehicle before. Too many things to do at once and the swap to having to use left hand to do gear shifts takes some getting used to if you are right handed (and vice versa for us driving in the USA but to a much lesser extent). Using your left hand to do something precisely like that is harder if you are right handed.

The other way around auto to manual is trivial although you might well declutch the brake approaching the barrier for the first time.

Be careful what you wish for. The Japanese driving test takes place on a standardised layout about the size of a cricket pitch complete with its own hump back bridge. Every driving school has one as learners are not allowed on the roads. The result is pretty weird.

I know because I have taken the practical test in Japan when I lived there. It was fun since we have been driving an automatic for a year and the test was in a clapped out manual gearbox official car supplied by the test centre. Second gear was almost completely worn out!

Remembering that "Green" traffic lights are officially "Blue" in Japanese is essential to obtaining a pass...

Mostly it is the planning ahead where (new) drivers fail.

There are gaps in the hedges on all the tight bends where I live. The odd one has a radar activated please go round the dangerous bend sign. They never work on cold frosty winter's mornings...

Autos are so much better than they used to be that it is probably far safer for average drivers to use them. And there are a lot of very average drivers around.

Engines tend to last longer in an auto. You dint tend to use peak RPM so much.