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While the number of driving tests in automatic vehicles continues to rise, the vast majority of instructors are still teaching in manual cars,” says Stewart from the ADIJC.
“This will change eventually, as the price of EVs continues to decrease, and driving instructors begin to see the commercial advantages of teaching in these kinds of vehicles.”
But for now there’s a stigma around an automatic-only licence, says motoring journalist and author Maria McCarthy.
“People would say, oh, one day you might need to hire a van or hire a car on holiday and then you’ll need to drive a manual.
“But these days when you hire a car or a van, most of them are electric. And how often do people do things like that anyway?”
Caitlin’s instructor did eventually buy a second automatic car but at that stage she had “already committed lots of time to manual”.
She passed her test in September and now she’s behind the wheel of her manual 2018 Volkswagen T-Roc and an hour to her new job in Workington, she has no regrets.
“If I’d had the choice back then an automatic would have been the dream,” she says. “But now I’m glad I learned manual because I can drive any car and the insurance is cheaper.”
Additional reporting by Connie Bowker