Yet another drivers test question

How many of you took the automatic test only? DH says you can take this test and not the manual one, but you will be unable to drive a manual! Is this the same now after 10 years? Is there a site to go for more info on the driving tests?

I took the automatic test many years ago, and then a mototcycle one, then the manual one (that last twice as I failed the first time due, of course, to some other IDIOT on the road  who was signalling left and carried on straight ahead).

The taking of a test on an automatic still does NOT give you the right to drive a manual car on your own, although your resulting full license "also acts as a provisional license for any other group that you can legally drive".  I think the separate tests came in during the 1960s.

Links? http://www.dvla.gov.uk contains much more up do date information than my memory, and there are some useful threads here a page of two back.

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The taking of a test on an automatic still does NOT give you the right to drive a manual car on your own, although your resulting full license "also acts as a provisional license for any other group that you can legally drive".  I think the separate tests came in during the 1960s.

I do not know how to drive a manual and would have to get an automatic as my manual training went very bad! I refuse to drive a manual after I tried many times to do so.

Go for it in automatic Munchie,, I am doing that as well, and will have no regrets about not driving manual,,lol. I just got an automatic car and am not looking back  

Another good place to ask questions or find answers:

http://www.1waydrivingschool.com/phpBB2/index.php

and

http://www.2pass.co.uk/

2pass is excellent,, will check out the other one too, thanks onetiger