In the UK, they are. You can either take your driving test in a manual or an
automatic. If you take it in a manual, you can drive either. If you take it
in an automatic, you can only drive automatics.

In the US it's the reverse. If you take it (or took it when I did,
mumble years ago) in a manual, that's all you could drive. If you took
it in an automatic, you could drive both. Go figure.

Jose
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