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I think all this business about changing through gears & always being in
gear comes from the early days of the driving test when cars were a
bugger to get into gear, and needing all your acceleration to avoid
someone was a frequent thing. Times have changed a lot. Once you know
your vehicle one can go into the right gear in a moment, there's no
hanging about - this makes being in gear all the time redundant.

And likely from the days when cars had very poor brakes indeed.

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