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by coldtea 1286 days ago
>I doubt that. Most people in the US getting into a car with a third pedal and a stick shift would just not have any idea what to do. The more enterprising would think, ok, I guess to I need to put it in first gear. So they try to move the shifter, and they can't move it. Assuming they don't break anything, maybe they figure out they need to press the clutch pedal. So they shift, and release the clutch pedal, and the car stalls.

In what scenario they'd go right into driving a manual car without prior instruction, looking up some instructions online, or someone knowledgable explaining it to them like 10-15 minutes?

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Picking up a hire car in a non-US airport?
Dunno, one is able to find automatic rentals all over the world - and if not that, one can certainly find ahead of pick-up time that the car is going to be manual...