Jose wrote:
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.

Huh? That makes absolutely ZERO sense. (okay, it was gub'mint)