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I’m not on about the location of the stick, like you say it’s pretty much muscle memory.
What I was trying to convey was how would he be able to negotiate gear changes for things like slowing down for junctions, roundabouts, traffic lights, motorway exits and that?
Same rules apply in an auto as well I guess…
It was in the middle of the night he did this, two bottles of wine deep.
Put Huddersfield to Carlisle into a satnav and follow the route to the M6 at least. M62 to M60 to M61 to M6
You don’t need sight to drive a manual. You can feel and hear it. Even just feel it if the music is up. Hit the accelerator and it doesn’t go? Downshift. Let off gas and it decelerates too hard? Upshift.
If, as the article says, he was planning to drive to Scotland, he might just have decided he’d need fuel for the long journey and filled up without knowing whether the car was nearly full or nearly empty already.
Fair enough, you would need some degree of sight to manage this. I can see it being possible with very minimal vision though assuming one is drunk enough to have a lot of self confidence and not care about potentially running into things.
I’m not on about the location of the stick, like you say it’s pretty much muscle memory.
What I was trying to convey was how would he be able to negotiate gear changes for things like slowing down for junctions, roundabouts, traffic lights, motorway exits and that?
Same rules apply in an auto as well I guess…
It was in the middle of the night he did this, two bottles of wine deep.
Put Huddersfield to Carlisle into a satnav and follow the route to the M6 at least. M62 to M60 to M61 to M6
How did he know he needed fuel?
He’s not as blind as he claims to be
Blind doesn’t mean you can’t see at all, its a classification. If you’re eyesight is bad passed a threshold, 1/10th normal iirc, you are blind.
You don’t need sight to drive a manual. You can feel and hear it. Even just feel it if the music is up. Hit the accelerator and it doesn’t go? Downshift. Let off gas and it decelerates too hard? Upshift.
If, as the article says, he was planning to drive to Scotland, he might just have decided he’d need fuel for the long journey and filled up without knowing whether the car was nearly full or nearly empty already.
Fair enough, you would need some degree of sight to manage this. I can see it being possible with very minimal vision though assuming one is drunk enough to have a lot of self confidence and not care about potentially running into things.