Or, "How to drive a vehicle with a manual ('standard') shift transmission".

The fact is that this is one of those situations where many may find it a relief that, at least when it comes to the "how to" of shifting gears (which is actually what it comes down to here), it doesn't matter whether or not you've ever driven a car with an automatic (shift) transmission, or, indeed, any other presumably four-wheeled motor vehicle with an automatic, semi-automatic, or virtually any other seemingly automatic (shift) transmission, all the way from so-called "jeeps", to ATV's, down to lawn tractors.

In other words: Whether or not you've ever driven any motor vehicle with such as an "automatic transmission" makes no difference, the fact remains you can drive a motor vehicle with a manual ("standard") shift transmission anyway.

Indeed to help drive the point home, about the only thing which past history and both past and current factors have to do with it are the following:
For one thing, in terms of history, although the basic principle of the automatic (shift) transmission was in essence derived from the "planetary transmission" (which Henry Ford began installing in the Model T Ford almost 100 years ago), and although "the automatic shift transmission" was invented before it was introduced little more than fifty-five years ago as a mass-produced option on some cars, it still took some years for "automatic (shift) transmissions" to become "standard equipment" on some cars, and perhaps a quarter of a century longer (about twenty-five years ago) before "how to drive a vehicle with a manual (standard') shift transmission" became, in effect, a "forgotten" thing to many people.

In terms of both past and current factors, one of the things about driving motor vehicles with manual ("standard") transmissions which has remained virtually unchanged is that it still generally offers greater fuel efficiency, performance, and more flexible use of power, even with "computerized everything".

Now despite the limitations of the written word, especially in a situation such as this with the considerable lack of irreplaceable "in person instruction" (such as in learning how to drive any car in the first place) instructions on who to drive a car with a manual ("standard") shift transmission are as follows:

To start with, remember "click it (wear your safety belt), or ticket" (receive a traffic ticket to pay for not doing so), and that statistics show that your life

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