Automatic transmissions make cars easier to drive, and modern ones are much improved. Yet manuals teach skills you can't get ...

Driving an automatic car is easy-peasy compared to piloting a manual. The most common gear settings in an automatic vehicle are Park (P), Reverse (R), Neutral (N), and Drive (D). The rest are not ...

Factors that make a car difficult to drive fall into something of a subjective gray area. For a recently licensed teenager who learned to drive with an automatic, attempting to operate a manual would ...

Their teens are ready to drive. Can a stick shift save them from being distracted? (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) Logan was equal parts excited and nervous ...

A common fear among drivers is accidentally shifting to reverse while on the move, which many assume could be catastrophic for the vehicle. But can you really hurt your gearbox if you — or some nosey ...