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You just need training
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In the first of a new series, LGV driver L Radley explores why automatic transmission has wroni acquired a bad reputation and what can be done to address this.
Lit's de-skilling, you know." Fnally the driver on the next bay had my attention and I turned to raise one eyebrow at him.
Shutting the window wasn't an option in midsummer, so I kept replying "I don't have that problem" and waited for him to run out of steam. His response was: "Yeah, but you've had time to get used to it," "You've just dismissed the fact that I have none of the problems you've listed because I've had time to learn to drivi the thing." His brow furrows. "Well, yeah..."
"So you accept you can't just get in one and head off withe knowing how to use it," Cogs start to creak. "Yeah." "Wouldn't that be a new skill then?"
Explain to an old hand that the reason gear changes take time is because the box is constant mesh, just like that legendary favourite the Eaton Twin Split, and watch the eyes light up. Go back to basics and show him how to find clutch t on the right-hand pedal and he will happily practice until he c smugly creep backwards around 16 parked cars and a forkli" empty, in the wet, without so much as a momentary slither.
If you want drivers to learn a new skill and recognise it as such, try teaching them. You wouldn't strap a Spitfire pilot int fly-by-wire Eurofighter and expect him to be any good.
The word `automatic' brings to mind the 'point and go' seti. found in cars for the over-60s. Compare that with the reality e Automatic Manual Transmission. We could start to break dot the barriers simply by referring to it by its proper name.