[timewarrior]

I grew up in India and loved driving stick shift. Once I moved to US, I transitioned to Automatic.

Biggest reason I miss Stick shift is that, it just felt that I had a stronger connection with the car and the acceleration was more predictable. With automatic you might not be in the right gear and the car might upshift too soon or too late.

A potential side effect of the stronger connection is that more involvement leads to more spirited driving and potentially traffic tickets.

Then I got a Tesla. Beauty of Tesla is that it has just has one gear, so you are always in the right gear. So this avoids the biggest issue with Automatic. OTOH, because I am not manually changing gear, this avoids the spirited driving issue. It is now an appliance and just works.