In article ,
NY wrote:
The American said he was happy to have a manual. He was led out to the
car, which was parked in a line of cars parked nose-to-tail. He got in,
revved the car up to about 2000 rpm and the car lurched forwards
violently when he let the clutch in, hitting the car in front and
sending it into the car in front of that. Before the hire employee
could stop him, he put the car into reverse to try to extricate
himself, and did the same thing to the cars behind.

In about 10 seconds he had written off five cars: the one he was
driving, the two in front of him and the two behind. He lost his
no-damage deposit...


Remember the US court cases where poor car design was blamed for them
'running away'? They were autos.

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*Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students.

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