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Originally Posted by HarryT
Having owned both, I think personally that a manual car gives the driver a lot more control than an automatic. The human brain is a much better judge of what the appropriate gear is for a particular situation than a machine. Eg, if you need to get out of an emergency situation fast, with a manual car you can select a lower gear a lot more quickly than an automatic gearbox can respond. When I had an automatic car, I never really felt that I was in control of it the way I do with a manual.
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Previously at least manual cars did not have cruise control. I would have thought that it is the cruise control in automatics that give much increases safety. I do not drive much but when driving in the US it always felt safer because people used cruise control and kept a constant speed and we did not get these constant flow of overtakings that we get in Sweden for example.