"We waited a hundred years or more for the automatic to be realized, and this question is still out there" -Click and Clack The Tap it Bros.
I live in a city of big steep hills with stop lights at the top of every one, I have no choice but auto. I lost a clutch on a 2-ton truck on Gough st (A truck/stick drivers nightmare*), and had to get the cops to back me down it during rush hour traffic - never again!
*Simular street on same hill a few blocks away used as a ski-jump!
{ Edited for image link - Paul }
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 02-17-2006).]