{"id":10861,"date":"2023-07-23T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T11:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/why-is-the-us-the-only-country-where-everyone-drives-an-automatic\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T11:39:03","slug":"why-is-the-us-the-only-country-where-everyone-drives-an-automatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/why-is-the-us-the-only-country-where-everyone-drives-an-automatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the US the only country where everyone drives an automatic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n<p>Why is the US the only country where nearly everyone drives an automatic? It\u2019s de rigueur over here, whereas \u201cdriving stick\u201d seems to be the default in other countries. <em>Benton Oliver, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <\/em><strong><a href=\"mailto:nq@theguardian.com\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><em>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jul\/23\/why-is-the-us-the-only-country-where-everyone-drives-an-automatic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/792b5dcce1a70cb2484694ffd6feaff6a785edb8\/0_0_3072_1843\/master\/3072.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5df5584a073ec54022e6f63f5d7b5a85\" title=\"Why is the US the only country where everyone drives an automatic?\" \/>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<br \/>\nWhy is the US the only country where nearly everyone drives an automatic? It\u2019s de rigueur over here, whereas \u201cdriving stick\u201d seems to be the default in other countries. Benton Oliver, San Diego<br \/>\nPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why is the US the only country where nearly everyone drives an automatic? It\u2019s de rigueur over here, whereas \u201cdriving stick\u201d seems to be the default in other countries. Benton Oliver, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/why-is-the-us-the-only-country-where-everyone-drives-an-automatic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is the US the only country where everyone drives an automatic?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}