re: Study: Only 18% of Americans know how to drive stick shift

My damn car has hill start assist. It won't let go of the brake if it detects you're on a hill till you hit he gas. I grew up driving tractors and diesel pickups that don't need the skinny pedal to get rolling and don't have automatic brakes. Killed the fricking thing about 5 times trying to get out of the dealership parking lot trying to take off against the damn brakes. I didn't know there was such a thing as hill start assist