[Spuds]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Nope.

The report from U.S. News and World Report show only 18 percent of U.S. drivers know how to operate a stick shift. It says that because of advancements in automatic transmissions and fuel economy, only about 5 percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. today come with a stick shift. That’s down from 25 percent of cars in 1987.

https://washington.cbslocal.com/2016...-drive-manual/

Always quote the actual source, not a re-report. Welcome to the age of clickbait and shoddy journalism.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/...s-disappearing

As drivers encounter more of these excellent modern automatics, fewer are interested in learning to drive a manual. The numbers are vague when looking for a percentage of people who at least know how to drive a stick, but they range from a high of 60 percent to a low of just 18 percent. “If you're of a certain age, you may never even have seen one,” says Seredynski.