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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you allowed to do that in the US?
In the UK, if you take your driving test in an automatic, then that's marked as a restriction on your driving licence, and you're only allowed to drive automatics. If you want to drive a car with a manual transmission, you have to re-take your driving test in such a car.
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Here in the US (or at least in California) you do not need to pass the test with a manual transmission to drive one.
A side note on the large SUVs: I was getting some business done at our Department of Motor Vehicles one day and since there was a fair amount to do I spent some time chatting with the lady taking care of me. She told me that people rarely take their driving exam in an SUV. They are almost always done in regular cars. She said she (and many of her coworkers) wished that there was a requirement to take the test in one if you were going to drive one. Unfortunately people feel like they're so much safer in them due to the size and don't realize that most don't drive like a normal car.