is it easy to drive an automatic

[suzie1]

and if you are passed on a manual car can you drive an automatic on that licence? thanks

[moonraker558]

the swindon one is easy you just drive around the outside or staight across as long as you keep looking to your right its fine.

[carlton23]

I remember when I drove a coach around the Swindon one for the first time many eons ago and it scared the gubbins out of me.

[crisgal]

my husbands old aunty drove her car straight across the roundabout - right over the top1 It was a big one too, grass, bushes, the lot!
Mind you, she once drove to the supermarket without realising she had a wheel missing!

[ChuckFickens]

They are all easy once you know them, it is slightly amusing to watch non-locals being totally baffled by them though.

[vulcan]

just checked the info on that roundabout, chuck, it refers to the confusion it causes to a minority of motorists. I would be a member of that minority !

[moonraker558]

With a coach or lorry no one is going to argue with you in my experience.

[sara3]

crisgal.. wow, lol!

[crisgal]

i swear it's true sara3 - she never changed up from 2nd gear!
You could hear her coming from a mile away!

[joko]

i drive an anutomatic, but as ive got really small feet i find it easier to use both feet...i have never had any problems with 'going for the clutch' or trying to brake with the wrong pedals ...as in a manual you remove your foot from the accelerator completely anyway...so you would also in an auto too

[SurreyGuy]

joko - nobody has mentioned about "braking with the wrong pedal". You use your right foot to brake regardless of whether you have an auto or a manual. Also (and again regardless of whether your car is auto or manual), the brake pedal is the one next to the accelerator.

I can completely understand/empathise with people initially "going for the (non-existent) clutch when they have switched from driving a manual to driving an auto. And yes, you DO stop rather sharply! :o)

[dothawkes31]

I passed my test in an automatic in 1974 and therefore have never driven anything else but automatics and it's brilliant, I've driven a Jensen, a scimitar, a ford mustnag mach1, am XJ6, every class of merc., (I used to drive performance cars back from the auctions for my bro-in-law in the 1990s). I have actually driven the white mercedes convertable that used to belong to Lulu as my Boss in 1974 owned it.