Wonder if a car could be customized to have literally, separately, both an automatic and manual transmission, with a switch on the dash to select which one was operative.
I enjoyed the stick but wouldn’t want my wife to drive one. She wouldn’t want it either.
Back in 1964, I bought a bran new red VW beetle. I bought it with funds from being run over when I was 8. I bought it in anticipation of marriage and graduating from college and a new job.
A prerequisite for marriage was learning to drive the VW and the stick shift. She diligently accepted the challenge.
(on the way home from the VW dealer, I ran over a section of discarded snow chain and had a flat tire)
Yes. Most ‘automatic’ transmissions are essentially manuals with a computer operating the clutch and changing the gears.
But you would have to have a clutch pedal that did nothing when in auto mode.................