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5:35pm on Thursday, 24th April, 2025:
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The most annoying thing about switching to a car with automatic transmission after driving ones with manual transmission for four decades is the lever that switches between forward and reverse. You push it forward to go backwards and pull it backwards to go forward. This is counter-intuitive. OK, so I can memorise it, but that still makes it annoying.
I've finally managed to get to grips with it. It works like windows scroll in a graphical user interface. Scrolling down moves the contents of a window up; scrolling up moves the contents of a window down. If the world is the window and the car is the contents of the window, then pulling back moves the contents up and pulling back moves the contents down.
It's still annoying, but less annoying.
Now I only need to find a way to remember that when I've put the car into parking mode at traffic lights, I should press the brake and then move the lever thing, because pressing the lever thing does nothing.
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