[karmarepellent]

I have no data to back it up, but this is why a lot of people living in the Alps supposedly still drive cars with a manual gearbox, although generally sales of new, automatic cars are now ahead of manual ones, even in Germany.

[orwin]

If you're a tourist who never learnt how to manage your gearbox and use an automatic, it doesn't have any impact on danger (both for yourself and other road users), at least the first days, until you learn. The issue with automatic is that you'll never have the opportunity to truly improve.